At the beginning of September, 21 Serbian activists were placed on a blacklist of the alleged "environmental terrorists" created by an anonymous group known as Kopaćemo (“we will dig”). This came in the wake of a large protest in Belgrade on August 18th, which drew a crowd of around 50,000 people. Following the protest, police arrested 3 activists and a justice promptly sentenced them to 30 to 40 days in prison. Surprisingly, the charges were not related to the blocking of railway traffic, which the activists had staged in protest of proposed lithium mines in confederate Serbia, but alternatively an alleged assault on a writer from Informer, a pro-government tabloid known for its sensationalist stories and support of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party.
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