The Serbian Radical Party (SRS) organised a meeting in Belgrade on Saturday on the ninth anniversary of their leader Vojislav Seselj's departure for The Hague to stand trial for war crimes, with about 20,000 supporters from all over Serbia attending.
Participants asked that Seselj be immediately brought back to Serbia and that the Hague war crimes tribunal be abolished.
Addressing the rally, members of a Russian committee for Seselj's defence called on Russia to exert more pressure on the UN's tribunal in its capacity as a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
Among those in attendance was Serbian Infrastructure and Energy Minister Milutin Mrkonjic, one of the leaders of Interior Minister Ivica Dacic's Socialist Party of Serbia.
Seselj is on trial for war crimes committed in Croatia, Bosnia, and against Croats in the Serbian province of Vojvodina.
