BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Protesters clashed with police on Tuesday in a southwestern Serbian town following the reported forced expulsion of a group of students from a faculty building where they had been camping for months as part of nationwide anti-government demonstrations.
Hundreds of protesters in Novi Pazar chanted slogans against Serbia’s populist President Aleksandar Vucic and demanded that the students be allowed to return to the building.
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