Part of Serbia's judicial system paralysed due to lawyers' strike

They said they would not give up until people who attacked the protesters against the Rio Tinto lithium mining near Loznica were processed as well as those responsible for the events that followed.

Speaking to N1, Vera Palinkas, a lawyer from Sabac, said their demands were identical to the ones their Belgrade colleagues had but added the people who "physically attacked peaceful demonstrators and endangered their lives must be processed. Those are people who beat citizens, drove construction machines into the crowd, but also those who covered the city with 'arrest warrants,' calling for the lynching of three fellow citizens – a journalist with a local newspaper, a minor, and our fellow lawyer," she said.
Palinkas added they had already reported those people to the Sabac Basic Prosecutors' Office a day or two after the incidents, with all data about the perpetrators and evidence. Still, there had been no reactions so far.
"We tried other ways – with protests, appeals… nothing worked. The strike is the only way," she said, adding the lawyers were obliged to defend people regardless of being without income while paying obligations to the state.