Tag: закани

Emil Jakimovski, the former employee at the Central Registry, who issued threats and insult to journalists Meri Jordanovska and Iskra Koroveshovska, is taken into custody and at the moment he is question at the police station, confirmed the Ministry of Interior for Meta.mk. According to the information, he was detained because of a subpoena against him for domestic violence...

The Regional Platform for Advocating Media Freedom and Journalists’ Safety that consists of more than 8.000 members has condemned the threats and insults towards Meri Jordanovska, an editor of A1on.mk and the TV Alfa editor, Iskra Koroveshovska. Both journalists received threatening messages from Emil Jakimovski and he was reported to the police. The President of the Association...

In the past two years, the number of cases of violation of jurnalists' rights in the country has decreased by four times. If in 2017, 20 cases such as these were registered, the Association of Journalists (AJM) has registered only 4 such incidents where one was a physical attack n a journalist and in three cases there was a...

The Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) condemned the pressures that are made on journalist at Investigation Reporting Lab (IRL) Maja Jovanovska. The verbal pressures followed the investigation story about construction works in the last few years at the Taftalidze area in Skopje. As informs AJM, during the weekend the owner of the construction company Nastel - Zaoran Azmanov...

Peter Vanhoutte, the main mediator in the political parties talks during the so-called Przhino Process, which led to the Przhino Agreement, visited Skopje again. In this interview he speaks about one segment of the Przhino Process, namely the media reforms, and gives his appraisal. Are you familiar with the course of the media reforms over the past 3 years and...

OSCE's Mission in Skopje in partnership with the Syndicate of Journalists and Media Workers (SSNM) promoted today at a press conference the free phone line 0800-11-011 зto help journalists in case of threats, attacks, and violence. The free phone line will function 24/7 and will provide help and support to journalists and media workers in case of threats both...

The Ministry of Interior announced that its Sector for Computer Crime and Digital Forensics has documented and processed 30 cases where state officials' safety was jeopardized on the social networks or their personal data was misused. Notifications were sent for all cases to the Basic Public Prosecution in order to investigate whether those are criminal acts that should be...

The opposition party VMRO-DPMNE has issued an appeal to the court not to succumb to threats and pressure that are made regarding the charges that were filed by the Special Public Prosecution against high-ranking party officials and former ministers, among which is VMRO-DPMNE’s party leader and former Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski. The party stresses that with the work of the...

“In 2016, the government has used all of the government’s available instruments to limit the freedom of speech and to control the media. It is awarding the docile media with public assets while the critical journalists are constantly attacked and are exposed to various types of pressure said Naser Selmani, the president of the Association of Journalists in Macedonia...

Diplomats from the United States, staff in the embassies and their families in Moscow and in several other European countries in the past period have been targets of harassment and intimidation as part of an organized campaign orchestrated and systematically implemented by the Russian Intelligence and Security Services, reported in June the prestigious American newspaper the "Washington Post". Recently, in...

The Special Public Prosecution (SPO) have a statement from Kosta Krpač where he informs the SPO about threats he had received, said Lenche Ristovska, spokesperson and prosecutor for the SPO at today’s press conference. She added that the evidence is in their possession and that they will submit all the relevant information they have to the Public Prosecutor’s Office Skopje...