The EU and UN called Friday for the right to demonstrate to be respected in Serbia ahead of a major anti-corruption rally in Belgrade, with both urging calm as tensions ran high. For months, the anti-corruption movement has seen students organise rallies across Serbia,

Tens of thousands of people converged to protest against President Aleksandar Vucic and his government, in what was expected to be the largest demonstration in a movement that started four months ago.

The protest in Belgrade, Serbia, was the culmination of four months of rallies against President Aleksandar Vucic’s government after a deadly train station canopy collapse.

While the government put attendance at 107,000 across Belgrade, an independent monitor said 325,000 - if not more - had gathered, making it Serbia's largest protest ever. The Novi Sad collapse last November has galvanised anger towards the government and President Aleksandar Vucic.

The rally on Saturday in the capital, Belgrade, came as protests have spread to towns around the country and have drawn increasingly insistent calls that President Aleksandar Vucic step aside.

At least 100,000 people descended on Belgrade on Saturday for a mass rally seen as a culmination of months-long protests against Serbia’s populist President Aleksandar Vucic and his government.