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Journalist associations condemn the suspended sentence for the editor of Infomax portal

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Journalist associations condemned the verdict for the Infomax’ editor in chief Aleksandar Mitovski, who received a suspended sentence in a period of 6 months due to revealing official secret. Last August, Mitovski published an official document, a minute of businessman Orce Kamchev’s testimony when he reported the racketeering on part of Bojan Jovanovski.

Regarding the verdict, the President of the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) Mladen Chadikovski said that ” even then, when the criminal charges were pressed, and now, he thinks that pressing charges will not lead to a better climate in the society.”

” I am aware of the journalists’ role and the responsibility when it comes to such sensitive subjects, and even when there are indications of law violations I think that the wider public interest has to be taken into account. On the other hand it is unclear why the prosecution still hasn’t found the mole that has stolen the testimony from its ranks and the only guilty is the one who published it” said Chadikovski.

The Macedonian Association of Journalists (MAJ) also condemned this verdict as “strong blow on the journalism, the public interest and the basic right to know the truth about the work of public institutions, the politicians’ corruption and the complete judicial-prosecution system”

They also said that “the International and European Federation of Journalists were also notified on this scandalous decision”.

According to the oppositionparty VMRO-DPMNE ” a 6 months imprisonment sentence is proof of the regime that Zoran Zaev wants to impose”.

Journalist Sasho Ordanovski in his column published by Civil Media titled “The Public Interest and the Racketeering Fabrication” wrote that “Of course it is wrong to convict the editor of a portal who has published original minutes of testimonies that the publisher has assessed that they are of public interest and have to be published.”

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