Tag: insults

The Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) condemned the threats and the insults that employees of Skopje's public enterprise for communal hygiene "Komunalna higiena - Skopje" (KHS) hurled at Meta news agency's journalist Ilinka Iljoska in Kisela Voda in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia. The incident occured on Monday, the 15th of August 2022. "AJM urges Komunalna higiena -...

The „Kooperacija.mk“satire web site recently published a satirical article titled "I WANT THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS TO BE CANCELLED!! WE WANT TO LEARN!!!" allegedly written after the statement by a high school student and illustrated with a photo from the most recent public appearance of the President of the Union of High School Students of the Republic of North Macedonia...

Metamorphosis Foundation and the CriThink's team give full support to our colleague Miroslava Burns who is a target of vulgar, sexist, and discriminatory attacks. The attacks consist of insults and threats, inconvenient and threatening speech, but there are also elements that can be described as hate speech, which is a felony according to the Criminal Code. "We condemn all forms...

In the 72-year existence of the Basic Court Skopje 1, there has never been such behavior and contempt of court, judiciary and towards a judge conducting proceedings, as shown by Special Public Prosecutor, Katica Janeva and SPO prosecutor, Fatime Fetai, at today's hearing concerning the violence outside the municipality Center in June 2013, reacted the Criminal Court. “As a court,...

The United Macedonian Diaspora (UMD) called on the President of the United States Congress, Paul Ryan, the leader of the majority in Congress, Kevin McCarthy, to immediately relieve Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (a Republican representative from California) as Chairman of the Subcommittee on European Affairs, because of his recent statement in an interview with "Vision Plus" in Tirana. The UMD say...

"The United States recognizes and supports the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Macedonia and this position hasn’t changed.” This was said for “Voice of America” in Albanian by an unnamed official of the U.S. Department of State regarding the statement given by Republican Congressmen Dana Rohrabacher. The statement is almost identical to the statement that last week...

The Department of Cybercrime and Digital Forensics have brought criminal charges against a 34-year-old man from Skopje TT, due to comments he made on "Facebook", indirectly threatening the US Ambassador to Macedonia, Jess Baily and his family. The Skopje resident, according to the Ministry of Interior, is suspected of the crime of damaging the reputation of a foreign country. "The Department...

The Minister of Justice in Germany, Heiko Maas yesterday announced that the German government will abolish the law that forbids citizens of that country to insult foreign leaders. Maas said that law is “outdated and unnecessary”. The Turkish Embassy in Macedonia at the end of December last year, announced that it had brought criminal charges against E.A., a Turkish citizen because he had insulted...

The ruling party VMRO-DPMNE announced late this afternoon that they have decided to stop cooperating with the Belgian mediator Peter Vanhoutte in the negotiations. The decision, according to the party, is based on Mr Vanhouttes insults towards the VMRO-DPMNE party and the representatives who participated in the negotiations, as well as "continuing to belittle the people and the Republic of Macedonia". "VMRO-DPMNE has tolerated...

To abuse a photo of a fourteen year old girl is a disgusting move that crosses the boundaries of what is normal, is the reaction that came from SDSM after the news portal Kurir published a photo of the daughter of SDSM’s leader, Zoran Zaev. The party’s press release goes on to say that the posting of the photo didn’t...