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Rexhepi went to police station, say he wasn’t abducted but went to a friend’s home with his family

Kastriot Rexhepi, member of the parliament of North Macedonia from the BESA political party, who with his absence yesterday blocked the no confidence vote for the government of North Macedonia, today went to the Police station "Bit Pazar" in the capital Skopje, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) of North Macedonia informs. As the police says, Rexhepi, together with his family,...

Threats for animal rights activist in North Macedonia who alarmed about lion cub smuggling

Animal rights activist Tina Mickovska revealed that she is receiving death threats after she publicly denounced the trend of posting photographs of the lion cub Simba on the social networks by users from North Macedonia and called the authorities to act. On her Facebook profile she wrote that she is scared for her life, but that she won't back down...

Police make arrests in Gazi baba, Singelic, and Arachinovo searching for narcotics

During last night's raid, the police also conducted searches at various locations and homes in Gazi Baba, Arachinovo and Singelic, and has taken into detention several persons. More details about the raid will be released today. The raid was confirmed for TV 21 by Minister of Interior Oliver Spasovski, but he didn't want to reveal more details. -Don't expect that we...

Police in Albania and Montenegro confirm that Gruevski passed through their borders

Yesterday, police in Albania and Montenegro released statements in numerous articles in the media that former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski went to Budapest via two countries. Two countries have confirmed that Gruevski left their territories on Sunday. Considering the fact that there were no flights to Budapest from Podgorica or Tivat, it is most likely that Gruevski left the country...

Zaev: There is no political deal with Gruevski, he will return and serve his sentence

I strongly and categorically reject all speculation about any political deal with Nikola Gruevski, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said today, while answering journalist's questions after a press conference with the Prime Minister of Malta, Joseph Muscat. He said that he was convinced that Gruevski would return and serve his prison sentence. "There were many skeptics who said they would never see...

Macedonia “rife” with hate speech with cases rarely reaching court

Since the new legislative amendments to the Criminal Code for Hate Speech came into force in February 2014, the Skopje Criminal Court has only charged two individuals with a fine over hate speech. The number of fines is very small in comparison to the 341 cases recorded on the digital platform "Report and Resist Hate Speech" in the same period, while...

VMRO-DPMNE: To cover up scandals, MoI lied about terrorists arrests

The opposition, VMRO-DPMNE, says that Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski and SDSM are an embarrassment to Macedonia and are destroying the country's reputation with lies and manipulation. They say yesterday they lied that the MoI arrested seven Macedonian citizens who fought with terrorists in Syria, and actually it was only a matter of making the arrest. "To cover up scandals, abuses and...

Selmani: Police must learn that journalists are not the enemy

The police must learn that journalists reporting from protests are not the enemy, but are also professionals on official duty, who need to be protected if attacked by participants at protests. They deserve protection, in accordance with domestic and international law, said the President of the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM), Naser Selmani, at a workshop in Skopje...

140.000 people attended the “Macedonia is Greek” protest, part of them clashed with anarchists

The Greek police announced that during the "Macedonia is Greek" protest, that is taking place in the center of Athens, 140.000 people attended the protest and they arrived there from all corners of Greece with 283 buses, reports the Macedonian information agency (MIA). Parallel to the protest at the Syntagma square, only 800 meters away, anarchistic and antifascist organizations...

Memeti: Police violated the right to MPs immunity while taking them into custody

The police violated the right to MPs immunity and the presumption of innocence when the three MPs were detained on November 28th, this year, as part of the 36 people detained who are suspects in the violence in Parliament on 27 April, the Ombudsman found. According to the Ombudsman, the police in this case did not comply with the Rule...

Baily: There must be responsibility for April 27th, but also the presumption of innocence

Today, the US Ambassador to the country, Jess Baily, said that the US Embassy is closely following events related to the incident in Parliament which occurred on April 27th, and that the police, prosecution and justice systems must act transparently, while respecting the highest standards in carrying out this process . “The police, the prosecution and the justice system must...

USA: Greater transparency and the respect of legal procedures is needed

The US Embassy in Macedonia called for greater transparency and monitoring of the procedures to a shed light on what happened during the events in Parliament on April 27th . "We are following the news of the arrests. We urge police and prosecutors to pursue these cases with absolute transparency and the highest respect for due process. While the perpetrators...

Selmani: The government wants to act like an editor in chief with the media

For the Association of the Journalists of Macedonia (AJM), the idea where the Government will be regulating the media content is absolutely unacceptable, stressed the President of AJN, Naser Selmani, during the meeting with OSCE's new General Secretary Thomas Greminger, who is visiting the country. "it is contrary to the best practices in the European democracies," said Selmani and he...

According to the new package of laws, police work will now be controlled by the Prosecution

The Ministry of Justice has begun preparing a package of amendments in several laws that should provide external independent control over the work of the police. According to the announcement published today, the amendments will be made in the Laws for the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Public Prosecution, the Council of Public Prosecutors and the Criminal Code. Preparations for the changes...

The AJM condemns the detainment of two journalists and wants answers from the MOI and the PPO

The Association of Journalists in Macedonia claims that the attitude of the institutions is completely unacceptable and that their aim is to intimidate journalists and encourage self-censorship when covering certain court hearings. Yesterday, Mahmuti and Uka, as stated in the statement by the AJM, were detained for six hours at a police station, on the grounds that they had been...

Gruevski: Мass bribery, systematic threats and blackmail in the second round

There were more irregularities in the second round than the first round, said the VMRO-DPMNE leader, Nikola Gruevski after he voted today at primary school “Kuzman Josifovski-Pitu” in the municipality of Kisela Voda. “Unfortunately, during this period we didn’t get to see a democratic atmosphere. There was mass bribery among the public as never before in Macedonia, as well as,...

Jakimovski has reported that an employee has changed the locks in two offices at the municipality

The former Mayor of the municipality of Karposh, Stevcho Jakimovski, has reported yesterday to the police that an employee in the municipality's administration has stolen the keys both from the archive and the Public Procurement Commission and has changed the locks. The police report states that Jakimovski has reported that A.Z. without any permission has taken the keys from...

Jakimovski: The police burst into the municipality while we were collecting personal belongings

The former Mayor of the Municipality of Karpos, Stevco Jakimovski, today at a press conference accused the police of "under the leadership of Zoran Zaev" violently burst into the Municipality of Karpos while his colleagues packed their personal belongings. He said that someone had told the employees of the Municipality that the transfer of the mayor's office would take place...

Gruevski accused of irregularities, announced an analysis of the defeat but he didn’t mention a resignation

After the elections, there will be an analysis, with apurpose of determining what was done wrong despite all of the irregularities because we didn't get bigger support at these elections. As a president I take full responsibility and regarding all of this, about the causes, the results for any future direction will be discussed in the forthcoming period after...

Eurobarometer: Macedonian citizens don’t trust the judiciary, the police and the political parties

Macedonian citizens have the least confidence in the judiciary system, the police, the public administration, the government, the parliament and the political parties, show the latest polls conducted by "Eurobarometer." With over 50%, the citizens trust the army (51%) and the European Union (53%). The research was conducted in May this year i.e. before the forming of the new government and...