Serbia prohibits the Scheel rally, its threat comes: We'll organize it.

Serbia's Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said on Friday that no rally will be allowed in Hrtkovci on May 6th on the anniversary of the anti-Croatian speech Seheshel held in the same village in 1992 that led to his sentence by the War Crimes Court in The Hague.

Some political organisations have announced gatherings. No kind of rally will be allowed in Hrtkovci,” said Stefanovici, the BETA news agency reported.

Opposition parties said they would hold counter-demonstrata after the ultra-nationalist Sezel Radical Party announced the rally in Hrtkovci.

But Seheshel said he would challenge the ban and organise the gathering anyway.

“We will organise and the government has no reason to stop it,” told BIRN Shesheli, who is an MP in the Serbian parliament.

Asked about possible incidents caused by the challenges he is making to stop holding the gathering, Sheshel replied: Why should I care? ”

We were the first to plan a rally in Hrtkovci. Authorities can ban other gatherings”, he added.

Incidents involving the Radicals have increased in recent days after opposition NGOs and politicians began to stress that Sezel's war crimes sentence disqualifies him legally from his post as MP.

The mechanism for the International Criminal Court on April 11th sentenced Sezel in absentia to ten years in prison for inciting crimes with nationalist speeches in Serbia's Vojvodina region during the war in 1992.

His speeches calling for the expulsion of Croats from Hrtkovci were followed by violence against Croatian civilians. / BIRN-Belgrade