Tag: Amnesty

We are here to defend the Constitutional Court, to defend the country stated the President of GROM, Stevce Jakimovski in front of the gathered citizens outside the Constitutional Court. He said the once abolished Zoran Zaev can not destroy the constitutional order of the Republic of Macedonia. “Now they are attacking Macedonia, when faced with the refugee crisis and there is...

Restoring the possibility of amnesty for suspects who have participated in joint criminal enterprise of forging elections, or electoral fraud essentially means suspending the constitutional order, according to the civil society 'Frodem'. From 'Frodem' they call upon the MOI, the Special and regular Prosecution, to check for possible clues to whether the  five judges acted due to pressure or a...

The Constitutional Court on Wednesday (March 16th) has to decide whether the President will have the right to pardon people for election fraud or whether they will leave the current Law on Amnesty as it is. On the agenda for the next session of the Constitutional Court, published on the Court’s website between other topics, the agenda listed and the...

The current Law on Amnesty is good and there is no need to change it, says Justice Minister Adnan Jashari. This is the Minister of Justice’s first comment on the initiative to the Constitutional Court which opens the possibility of the President to be able to pardon persons convicted of electoral fraud, pedophilia and crimes against humanity. “I have the...

The VMRO-DPMNE stand behind the changes, but not behind the decisions on the Law on Amnesty and Pardons, which were proposed to the Constitutional Court in 2009, so there could be no amnesty for certain crimes, such as those who have been sentenced for offences related to elections, paedophilia, etc., says the statement from the ruling party. "In 2009, SDSM...

After his arrival back in Skopje from a meeting in London with UK Minister for Europe David Lidington, the British Ambassador Charles Garrett tweeted a photograph of Skopje Airport along with the question "What's this news about enabling pardons for electoral fraud ?" https://twitter.com/BritAmbCGarrett/status/702773866276515840 The "Twitter" community immediately reacted and replies to his question poured in, some along the lines of...

For human rights expert ZarkoTrajanovski the law which prohibits the publication of the "bombs" in his opinion, is ridiculous and is a transparent attempt by a criminal gang to impose censorship and to excuse themselves, from the tangled situation they find themselves in. “The same gang responsible for the mass illegal wire-tapping of thousands of people, who in 2010 legally allowed the...