
Serbia's capital Belgrade was on edge on Friday ahead of a major anti-government rall y this weekend, with populist President Aleksandar Vucic's government ramping up efforts to dissuade people from attending with warnings of violence and arrests of opponents.
Thousands of students and others are converging in Belgrade from all over Serbia for Saturday's protest, which is seen as a culmination of months of anti-graft demonstrations in the Balkan country and a test for Vucic's right-wing government, which has faced mounting popular discontent.