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This article was written by Ana Toskić Cvetinović, executive director of the civil society organization Partners for Democratic Change  Serbia, a member of the Increasing Civic Engagement in the Digital Agenda (ICEDA) network. An edited version is republished by Global Voices with permission. Under the content-sharing agreement between "Global Voices" and Meta.mk, we republish the text below:    “The modern totalitarian...

Today's court hearing, concerning the violence in front of the Municipality of Centar in June, 2013, a case known to the general public as "Slaps", in which Nikola Gruevski, Mile Janakieski, Daniela Rangelova and a dozen others were charged, was filmed with two handheld cameras, after lawyers for the defense yesterday and today called for hearings to be postponed...

Even though the investigation into the events of last Friday evening put additional Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Policy, Dime Spasov into the spotlight, today, more questions have arisen over whether the cameras from the so-called project “Safe City” are operational on the streets of Skopje. At today's press conference, Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski, and the "exclusive footage" released...

Three days after the armed incident, where a surgeon was wounded at the clinic for digestive surgery, the authorities can not tell whether the assault was recorded by the video surveillance cameras and whether they worked at that time. In 2008, the Ministry of Health procured and installed some 1,200 cameras in the University Hospital and other health care facilities,...

"Unfortunately, when the revolting murder happened, the cameras were not operational and we couldn’t count on such a powerful technological tool for uncovering the worst crime with which we are faced. However, with the selfless commitment of all members of the Ministry of Interior, who literally worked around the clock on the field from the time when the murder...