28 December 2018
The Criminal Court has published the letter sent by the US Ambassador Jess Baily to the President of the Court, Ivan Džolev regarding the “constant, false rumors with indications that the US EMbassy has a goal to influence the judges.” He said that any suggestion that the USA want to manage with some trial is […]
5 December 2018
A judge in a preliminary hearing has ordered the 30 day detention of former Director of the Security and Counterintelligence Administration (UBK), Vladimir Atanasovski, after an evening hearing in the Criminal Court. Atanasovski was arrested last night in front of the building opposite the Ministry of Interior. He is charged with “criminal association for purposes of […]
28 November 2018
In a plenary session, without a debate, Parliament, with 62 votes in favor, accepted the recommendation from the Commission for Procedural and Mandate-Immunity Issues to strip Nikola Gruevski of his immunity. The court has requested that Gruevski be detained for election fraud in the “Titanic” case, for irregularities in the construction of highways in the […]
27 November 2018
After yesterday’s sessions, the Criminal Council of the Skopje Court of Appeal, today decided to reject the appeals of the indicted Mile Janakieski and Kiril Bozinovski regarding the 30-day detention measure for the SPO’s case “Titanic”. “After the public sessions, the Criminal Council of the Skopje Court of Appeal have rejected the appeals of defendants […]
16 November 2018
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev today said that Nikola Gruevski’s escape is not related to the vote in Parliament for the start of the changes to the Constitution stemming from the Prespa Agreement, however, nevertheless, he added that he is concerned about the parliamentary majority. “For me the first priority is the political process in Parliament, […]
29 October 2018
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” […]
23 May 2018
Former prime minister and former leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, after today’s verdict to two years imprisonment, sentenced by the Criminal Court in the “Tank” case, wrote on Facebook, “better times are coming”. “Heads up, my proud citizens of Macedonia. This is your country, we will not let you down and we will be side […]
21 May 2018
Today, the Criminal Court acquitted Prime Minister Zoran Zaev for the crime regarding bribery. Judge Darko Todorovski from the Basic Court Skopje released Zaev from the charges. Reading the verdict, Judge Todorovski stated that the prosecution failed to prove that Zaev while acting as mayor of Strumica committed a criminal act to receive a bribe […]
5 April 2018
The Council for Monitoring the Implementation of Strategy for Reform of the Judicial Sector, led by prime minister Zoran Zaev reviewed the draft laws for the courts and the Court Council, with “reservations”. However, according to the statement made by the Government, the draft laws are t be used next week in Parliament. Namely, the […]
6 February 2018
The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights has not found any violations of procedures under the Constitution and the Laws regarding the detainment of six MPs suspected of violence, which occurred in Parliament on the 27th of April, last year. Today, the Helsinki Committee reported that they had come to this conclusion after complaints were filed by MPs […]
2 January 2018
Dozens of unjustifiably detained citizens, instead of spending New Year with their families, spent the new year in cold cells, says the opposition VMRO-DPMNE and reacted to the prolonged detention of the suspects of violence in Parliament on April 27th. The party says the detainees are “victims of political persecution, felt by the Inquisition of […]
30 November 2017
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 […]
28 November 2017
Parliament Speaker, Talat Xhaferi stated that he has not received a request to revoke the immunity of the MPs who were arrested today due to the violence in Parliament on April 27th. He said that if he received such a request, he would forward it to the competent parliamentary committee. “If a request is submitted to […]
1 November 2017
After a decade of trials and several repeated court procedures regarding the case of “Oreshe”, the court in Veles gave a freeing verdict for the accused in this case. Journalist Tomislav Kežarovski, who spent a year and nine months in detention because of the “Oreshe” case, has issued a statement on his Facebook profile. “The […]
22 October 2017
The monitoring of communications in the Ministry of Interior is carried out in accordance with the legal procedures – with a court order through the Public Prosecutor’s Office, said the Ministry of Interior to “Nova TV” regarding the accusations made by the leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, during an interview on ” Alpha” television that […]
29 July 2017
A court in the Kosovo town of Gjilan/Gilanje acquitted Lirim Jakupi – a known Nazi, who has been a member of ethnic Albanian guerrilla groups in Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia, and was convicted of attacking Macedonian police in Tetovo in 2004 and Skopje in 2014, reports Balkan Insight. The Basic Court in Gjilan/Gilanje on Friday found […]
21 May 2017
Last night, the Criminal Council rejected the appeal from the Special Prosecutor’s Office, which was initiated after Sead Kočan, a prime suspect in the “Trust” case, detainment was terminated. Prosecutors from the SPO, Gavril Bubevski and Artan Ajro at today’s hearing put forward their arguments and stated that there have been incidents when Kočan had […]
20 May 2017
The Criminal Court of the Basic Court Skopje 1, within the next 48 hours will decide whether Sead Kočan will be granted bail or remanded into custody. Prosecutors from the SPO, Gavril Bubevski and Artan Ajro at today’s hearing put forward their arguments and stated that there have been incidents when Kočan had reoffended and […]
10 May 2017
The president of the World Macedonian Congress, Todor Petrov, has filed an initiative to the constitutional Court for evaluating the legality of the election of Talat Xhaferi for a president of the Parliament. He is asking the court to annul the decision of electing Xhaferi for a president of the Parliament that was published in […]
7 May 2017
The person with the A.P. initials who attacked SDSM’s MP, Radmila Šekjerinska at the Parliament during the incidents on the 27th of April, last night was questioned by the Public Prosecution. On the videos recorded during the attacks by the protesters at the Parliament and were spread out on the social media networks, it can […]
