Serbian Students Cross Hungarian Border on Bike Ride to Strasbourg
Serbian students cycling to Strasbourg on a mission to alert Europe about the protest movement sweeping their home country reached Hungary on Friday.
Students have been occupying university buildings and leading mass rallies in Serbia for over four months, initially inspired by an attack on protesters in front of the Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic Arts on November 22.
The protests began after the external canopy of the recently renovated Novi Sad railway station collapsed last November, killing 16 people.
As the website on which the public can follow their trip live explains, for the students, “this is not just a cycling tour – it is a journey of hope, resistance and the voice of all those who have been silenced”.
“That’s why we are going to Strasbourg. Not because we expect someone else to solve our problems, but to make the world hear the voice of Serbia – for European institutions to exert pressure on the authorities and stand in defence of the rights of all those who are forced to remain silent,” the students wrote.
They added that, “our streets, once places of hope and connection, have now become scenes of fear and injustice”.
“Friends and colleagues have been arrested for speaking the truth, and institutions have turned into tools of repression,” they continued.
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