Tag: insult

The article in the Criminal Code and the verdict by the Skopje Criminal Court where the individual E.A. was convicted of insulting Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Facebook, is opposed to the practice of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, according to lawyer Filip Medarski. "The very article, and especially the verdict, goes against the practice of...

The Criminal Court in Skopje has found E.A guilty for insulting the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Facebook, reported the Turkish news agency “Anadolu”. The court sentenced E.A, who has Macedonian and Turkish citizenship, to a fine of 24,600 denars (400 euros) in the proceedings that were opened after criminal charges were filed by the Turkish Ambassador to the...

Several dozens of people, most of them members of the Turkish community in Macedonia, gathered peacefully and protested in front of Government because, as they said, they were appalled by the statement by the editor of TV "Sitel" Dragan Pavlovic - Latas, who in an interview with opposition leader Zoran Zaev said to him “You are lying like a...

The NGO Infocentar and the Media Development Center released data regarding the country’s primary courts, obtained through the free access to information of public character. In the period of two years, from November 2012 to December 2014, the nine primary courts in Macedonia (Gostivar, Veles, Strumica, Bitola, Prilep, Shtip, Tetovo, Kumanovo and Skopje 2) have received 520 insult...