Andrej Vučić

The Higher Court in Belgrade has sentenced six members of the Gendarmerie to six-month suspended sentences, with a two year probation period.

The High Court in Belgrade on Friday gave six police officers six-month suspended sentences, with a two-year probation period, for the attack on Aleksandar Vucic's brother during the 2014 Belgrade Pride parade.

They were found guilty of assaulting Andrej Vucic and Predrag Mali, the brothers of then Serbian PM, now President Aleksandar Vucic and Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali, in an incident that coincided with the holding of the Pride Parade in Serbia's capital in 2014.

Eddie Bernice Johnson, member of the US Congress urged Vice President Mike Pence not to meet Serbia's President, Aleksandar Vucic, citing Belgrade's relations with Russia and Iran, its failure to resolve the murder of the Bytyqi brothers and the alleged business dealings of Vucic's brother, Andrej.

Hundreds of eminent public figures in Serbia have signed a public letter of support for Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic, urging him to run in the 2017 presidential election as an independent, saying he represents democratic values, integrity and authority.

"There will be changes in the secret service; I believed in the skills of people who didn't show that they have these capacities, but I'll take responsibility for this," Vucic told Serbian public broadcaster RTS on Monday evening.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has ordered members of security and state institutions in charge of his safety from going public with any more information on the weapons caches reportedly found in and around Belgrade, Serbian national broadcaster RTS reported on Wednesday.

Interior minister: Vucic takes and passes polygraph test

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic was questioned on Sunday at his own request and passed a polygraph test, Nebojsa Stefanovic has announced.

The interior minister also told a news conference in Belgrade that "new proof has emerged that the whole scandal surrounding prime minister was fake and rigged."

Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic took a lie-detector test to prove he is innocent of media blackmail allegations, which his allies claim were invented as part of a plot to overthrow him.

Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said on Sunday that Prime Minister Vucic had taken a police polygraph test which proved that the blackmail claims against the Serbian premier were "false accusations".

The joint anti-terrorist military exercise in Serbia on Saturday, called "The Shield", will be broadcast live, Radio Television of Serbia has announced, and will involve more than 500 participants from the security and defence agencies.

Top political leaders from the ruling coalition will be present among the crowd.