Tag: Appellate Court Skopje

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in favor of Focus journalists in the case against Sašo Mijalkov, former head of the secret service in Macedonia. The ruling in Strasbourg comes after in 2014 Macedonian domestic courts ruled that Focus newspaper editor Jadranka Kostova and journalist Vlado Apostolov had to pay more than 9,000 euros as damages to...

The Association of Journalists of Macedonia is unsatisfied with the way the Civil Court and the Appellate Court in Skopje apply the Law on Civil Liability for Insult and Defamation, said the president of the AJM, Naser Selmani at a press conference. He added that "despite the clear specifications in the law, which regulates the responsibility of electronic publications, the...

A representative of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office, Jovan Cvetanovski, addressed the Council today at the Skopje Appellate Court regarding the appeal for the actor Vlado Jovanovski concerning the violence that took place in Parliament on April 27th, last year, demanding that the actor be released from custody and be given a lenient measure to ensure his presence. According...

There is no example in the world where the implementation of a court ruling where custody has been determined, is postponed, except in Macedonia. This was the opinion of Gavril Bubevski, a prosecutor from the Special Prosecutor's Office,  regarding the situation in which Goran Grujovski (former head of the fifth administration), Toni Jakimovski (former head of Sasho Mijalkov’s Office)...

The Special Prosecutor’s Office is expected to file their first appeals to the Appellate Court Skopje regarding their dismissed custody requests for 18 individuals, after the charges were filed last week, confirmed the SPO for “Meta”. The appeals are from rulings made by the Basic Court Skopje I, and the SPO will be submitting them in the following next few...