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“Civil”: Reis Sulejman Rexhepi must be held accountable for hate speech
It is unacceptable that a head of a religious community, whose aim is to unite and not create discord among the people, has called his fellow citizens "savages and people without identity", responded civic organization "Civil".
According to them, it is unacceptable for a person who is full of such hatred to be the highest representative of a religious community...
Civil: Punishment for those who spread hate speech
We condemn the extreme hate speech where the tragedy of those killed and injured is used to manifest unseen cruely and inhumanity, said members of Civil - Center for Freedom.
"We call upon all relevant institutions to take necessary measures and to punish the persons that are shamelessly and relentlessly using this tragedy to express their lowest, fascistic and...
CIVIL: Increased activities by party activists and violations of the elections silence
The "Civil" organization's teams who are monitoring the elections, have noticed increased activities on part of party activists among the municipalities where there will be a second round of the local elections, says the organization's press release.
"The election silence is violated during the evening. Civil has received several reports from election observers and an audio - evidence for...
“Civil”: There is no evidence of VMRO-DPMNE’s allegations of bribing voters
"Civil" observers did not discover any cases that would confirm VMRO-DPMNE's allegations of bribing voters which allegedly occurred before the first round of local elections on October 15th.
"Civil Media" writes, such allegations made by VMRO-DPMNE, such as bribery of voters, were part of a document that the leader of the party, Nikola Gruevski, submitted to representatives of the international...
A peaceful start to election day with minor irregularities, assessed “Civil”
The president of the NGO “Civil”, Xhabir Deralla said at a press conference this morning that the beginning of election day started peacefully, with a number of minor irregularities, that is, technical problems faced by the electoral boards.
He pointed out that yesterday, there had been more than 20 violations of the pre-election silence in Veles, Resen, Skopje, Stip, Tetovo...
CIVIL: MOI should prevent attacks on journalists, activists and public personas
CIVIL – Center for Freedom condemned the physical attack on TV 24’s journalist which happened during the protests last night.
“This isn’t an isolated incident and it is becoming obvious that the violence is part of the image of the protests from its very beginning. There were attacks on journalists that were doing their job i.e. to inform the general...
Reports flood into “Civil” of violations of the pre-election silence and pressure on voters
Civil organization "Civil" has reported that since the start of the pre-election silence until 14:00 pm today, they have had about thirty reports from election observers, as well as dozens of applications from citizens of violations of the pre-election silence and pressure on voters.
“Employees from a Skopje municipality are currently organizing calls to voters and are agitating and pressuring...
“Civil”: 104 citizens can not find themselves on the Electoral Roll
Today, NGO "Civil" submitted a list of 104 individuals to the SEC, who were deleted from the Electoral Roll and sent a request so the SEC can rectify these people’s right to vote. The organization went on to say that the so-called phantom voters had not been completely deleted from the voters’ list, but they had just migrated from...
“Civil”: The pressures over citizens keep on mounting with more than170 reported cases
During the period between the 5th and the 8th of December, the organization “Civil” received more than 600 calls from citizens that were worried whether they will have the opportunity to cast their vote at the early parliamentary elections set for Sunday the 11th of December, as was announced by the organization.
Today at 13.00 h, “Civil” is going to...
“Civil” Asks Political Parties to Reveal their Campaigns’ Source of Financing
“Civil” has stressed that in Republic of Macedonia an extremely expensive pre-election campaign is being run, and political parties do not provide information about the sources of their financing.
"An expensive campaign is being led, it’s non-transparent, and no one knows where the political parties are finding finances for their campaigns. We have tried to send requests to all parties...
Zaev: The SDSM does not want a fixed date for elections, but a conditional date
The leader of the opposition party SDSM, Zoran Zaev at today's debate organized by "Civil" said the the parties are having bilateral meetings with representatives from the international community, but there are no negotiations between the four largest parties. He said that the elections on June 5 won't be held, the SDSM does not want a new fixed date...
“Civil” demands elections be postponed to September
Several dozen people organized by the Center for Freedom "Civil" today before the Parliament demanded that the election be postponed and scheduled in September.
According to the NGO, in Macedonia there is still no conditions for fair and credible elections.
"We are gathered here today to say that we demand free elections and not elections with phantoms, abuse to the administration,...
At noon “Civil” will gather in front of Parliament and demand the resignation of the Government
The NGO "Civil" at 12:00 noon, will gather in front of Parliament and will demand the resignation of the government because of their failure to implement the Przino Agreement to overcome the political crisis.
From "Civil", they believe that early parliamentary elections must be moved at least until the end of September because, according to them, they are far from creating conditions...
The Action group had its first meeting in Przhino, described as informal and informative
The first meeting of the Action group lasted about two hours. The group consisted of representatives of the four largest political parties and OSCE experts. The media reports the group had discussed organizing the period ahead and the comparative experiences of a number of countries that had carried out a purge of electoral lists.
However, the meeting, which was also...
Young people in Macedonia have a huge dose of self-censorship
Recorded videos articles with larger number of citizens of Prilep, which present an objective picture of life in the city, as well as the violation of human and labor rights, were presented to the initiative "Social justice now," the open forum organized on topic "Social (in)justice in Prilep."
According to event organizer, there is a huge dose of self-censorship among...
CIVIL: Police abused freed protester Shoshev
Handcuffed, pushed and dragged, insulted and molested for several hours at the Skopje airport. Instead of boarding the plane to London yesterday afternoon, Dimitar Shoshev ended up in handcuffs – announced NGO CIVIL.
Shoshev is one of the protesters who were detained after the protests on 5th of May and who were expressly trialed and a suspended sentence was imposed...
“Civil” supported the idea of a referendum on the appearance of the facade of the GTC
NGO "Civil" today released a statement in which it fully supports the initiative for a referendum on the appearance of the facade of City Trade Center which was launched by Municipality og Centar and civil initiative "I love GTC".
- Government’s baroque fever, which several years ago crashed with its full weight on the shoulders of society and depleted people's...
“Civil” demands legislative changes for the use of rubber bullets to be withdrawn
"Civil" condemns the procedure of making legislative changes that enable the use of rubber bullets and other light weapons against protesters. Given that these legislative measures are taken at a time when thousands citizens demonstrate on the streets against violations of human rights and against the suspension of the rule of law and democracy, the NGO understand this as...
Civil: SDSM to immediately publish all data on government corruption
Center for Freedom follows the latest developments related to criminal charges and arrests within the police, political and media operation "Puch" conducted by the Prime Minister and the police with surprise and resentment.
"This is one more of a series of actions in which the Government, to put it mildly, uses its power under extremely dubious excuses. Such are the...
