{"id":4845,"date":"2024-04-03T07:21:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/?p=4845"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:22:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:22:36","slug":"tuzba-gradonacelnika-bora-kao-jos-jedan-vid-zastrasivanja-univerzitetskih-profesora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/the-mayors-lawsuit-is-another-form-of-intimidation-of-university-professors\/","title":{"rendered":"The lawsuit of the mayor of Bor as another form of intimidation of university professors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4845\" class=\"elementor elementor-4845\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-bad93ab elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"bad93ab\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8b5e113\" data-id=\"8b5e113\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ad95cb3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ad95cb3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Network of Academic Solidarity and Engagement (MASA) strongly condemns yet another attempt to repress the current government due to a publicly expressed opinion by university professors in Serbia. This time, the target of local authorities is prof. Dr. Snezana \u0160erbul from the Technical Faculty in Bor, which is part of the University of Belgrade. Her colleague \u0160erbula was sued by the mayor of Bor, Aleksandar Miliki\u0107 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for allegedly causing panic and riots, all because of the statement in TV Nova&#039;s &quot;Awake&quot; program about the potential construction of a mini-nuclear power plant in Bor and the dangers of a possible accident. What is the most absurd of all, colleague \u0160erbula made this statement from the position of the Head of the Department for Environmental Protection, but also as a resident of Bor, that is, as an indisputably professional person and a citizen directly interested in the consequences of a potentially dangerous and very likely illegal act.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the mayor of Bora sued her, professor \u0160erbula was forced to give a statement to the police, as well as to hire a lawyer at her own expense in an attempt to get the lawsuit dismissed as unfounded. It is hard to imagine that any court, no matter how sympathetic to the regime, will actually confirm a lawsuit against a professor for a publicly presented scientific opinion in her area of expertise, but this was probably not the main goal for the applicant. As in the case of other persecuted university professors who dared to express critical judgments, the main goal of this lawsuit is to provide another example of how those who dare to warn of the dangers and reasonedly criticize the decisions of the authorities, even from narrowly specialized positions, will fare.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MASA believes that with this act the field for professional, critical and free public debate in Serbia has been further narrowed and that if the academic community does not resolutely stand on the side of its colleagues, who have the courage to point out the dramatic problems facing our society from a professional position faces, then her right to defend the profession, as such, will lose any legitimacy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mre\u017ea akademske solidarnosti i anga\u017eovanosti (MASA) najo\u0161trije osu\u0111uje jo\u0161 jedan poku\u0161aj represije aktuelne vlasti zbog javno izre\u010denog mi\u0161ljenja od strane univerzitetskih profesora u Srbiji. Ovoga puta, meta lokalnih vlasti je prof. dr Sne\u017eana \u0160erbula sa Tehni\u010dkog fakulteta u Boru, koji je deo Univerziteta u Beogradu. Koleginicu \u0160erbulu je tu\u017eio gradona\u010delnik Bora Aleksandar Miliki\u0107 zbog navodnog [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4845"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4849,"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845\/revisions\/4849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}