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CIVIL: MOI should prevent attacks on journalists, activists and public personas
CIVIL – Center for Freedom condemned the physical attack on TV 24’s journalist which happened during the protests last night.
“This isn’t an isolated incident and it is becoming obvious that the violence is part of the image of the protests from its very beginning. There were attacks on journalists that were doing their job i.e. to inform the general...
Strasbourg rules in favour of journalists who were removed on “Black Monday”
The European Court of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms decided in favor of journalists Naser Selmani, Natasa Stojanovska, Frosina Fakova, Snezana Lupevska, Biljana Bogdanovska and Toni Angelovski, who were physically removed from a parliamentary session during the adoption of the budget on the 24th of December, 2012.
The Journalists demanded damages of 5,000 euros each, while the Government contested these...
AJM condemns the verbal abuse by the Government against journalists
The Association of Journalists of Macedonia condemns the coordinated surge of verbal abuse by the Government against journalists, who, the AJM says, is directed against the freedom of the media and the public's right to be informed.
"Such attacks are intended to intimidate and silence journalists and suppress criticism from the media. The Government wants to prevent the public from being...
“Human Rights Watch”: In Macedonia, Government uses advertising to exert pressure on the media
Journalists from the Western Balkans face a hostile environment that impedes their ability to do critical reporting, according to a new report by the NGO "Human Rights Watch" for the Western Balkans.
The report says more than a year after "Human Rights Watch" documented impediments to media freedom in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Macedonia, governments in the region...
Talevska: MAN will delegate members only when the state makes a public announcement
The Macedonian Association of Media (MAN) does not support political parties to nominate members for an ad hoc body for regulation, because, according to Ivona Talevska, this decision should be made by the journalists' associations.
“The AJM as an extended attachment of the SDSM, and under the guise as independent members failed to secure or to submit their own representatives...
AJM: The dismissal of journalists at MPM will have a significant impact on professional journalism
The Association of Journalists in Macedonia (AJM) today assessed the dismissal of journalists at media outlets owned by "Media Print Macedonia", and called it a blow to the freedom of professional journalism.
"The dismissal of 20 employees by "Media Print Macedonia", of which the majority are journalists who work at the daily newspaper "West", will have a significant impact on...
Taleski threatens to sue journalists from under house arrest
The Mayor of Bitola Vladimir Taleski, the prime suspect in the "Transporter" case, who is under house arrest, is threatening to sue journalist Sime Alushevski from Bitola, who is the publisher of the newspaper "Ego". The Secretary of the Municipality of Bitola, Slobodan Bonchanovski, who is also a suspect in the same case and served a month under house...
AJM: Association of Prosecutors condemns Nedelkovski but will not prosecute him
The Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) today at a press conference reacted to the decision of the prosecutor of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office, who assessed that the TV host Milenko Nedelkovski did not incite hate speech and violence through his Facebook status with threats against several journalists, and "it is a matter of a person expressing their...
SDSM appeals to management at TV “Telma” to reconsider their decision
“The Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM) with great concern, received the news that the management from TV “Telma” has decided to make 12 employees redundant”, said a statement by the SDSM.
The statement added that "the management of a television station which is a well-respected medium, will have to explain the reason for this decision."
Especially because the journalists who...
“Kanal 77” are asking news organizations to respond to the incident with their journalist
National Radio "Kanal 77" publicly condemned the behavior of GDOM supporters, who yesterday during their protest in Stip did not allow journalist, Vanja Micevska to report on the event.
They are urging other news organizations to condemn the incident, which is one of many incidents where people have attempted to obstruct journalists from doing their job.
"The participants from the counter protest...
Migrants returned to Greece, while Journalists released at Bogorodica after being fined
Migrants, who yesterday managed to find a 'gap' in the Macedonian-Greece border fences and so entered Macedonian territory illegally before arriving at the village of Moin, near Gevgelija were returned to Greece, the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) said today to "Meta" journalists.
Approximately 1500 people were detained yesterday by Macedonian security forces. A further group, 600 to 700 people...
Macedonian Police have arrested 28 journalists for illegally crossing the border
Mariana Karakoulaki, a journalist who has been covering the refugee crisis in Greece, posted on her "Twitter" account that photographer Dimitris Tosidis and 30 other journalists and activists were arrested by the Macedonian security forces on the Macedonian-Greek border.
Another her tweet said, "URGENT: photographer Dimitris Tosidis was arrested by the Macedonian Army as they reported on the #RefuGR march,...
Journalists boycotted the court hearing for “Divo Naselje”
Today, journalists were not provided with adequate conditions for following or reporting on the case and trial “Divo Naselje” after the events which unfolded in Kumanovo's settlement of Divo Naselje on May the 9th and 10th of last year.
The court announced, that due to national security, the case has been given limited capacity within the courtroom, and there is only enough...
Sejfula: Latas’s statement is an insult to Turks everywhere
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...
Tomorrow, working groups will ‘sort out’ the media
The working groups of the political parties who are part of the Przhino Agreement start talks tomorrow about the media and the manner in which they work.
According to the Chairman of the Working Group for SDSM, Robert Popovski, the meeting should be attended by organizations who actually work in the field of media.
“We have proposals, suggestions which we will...
ZNM: Attacks over journalists are orchestrated and the institutions are complacent
The Association of Journalists in Macedonia (ZNM) has registered in the last four years, more than 20 threats and physical attacks over journalists and media workers, of which half were registered in the first half of this year. Thus far no perpetrators have been identified or held responsible.
This was reported at a press conference today by Naser Selmani, President...
VMRO-DPMNE: The Violence was Deliberately Caused by SDSM
“SDSM did not react when several journalists were attacked by their or their coalition partners' activists. Unlike them, VMRO-DPMNE has the principle and the responsibility to denounce all attacks and regards such cases equally,” says in the reaction offered by VMRO-DPMNE to the press conference of SDSM spokesperson, Petre Shilegov.
“We want to reiterate that party leaders in SDSM...
Shilegov: Is Gruevski evading responsibility by instigating violence?
SDSM is demanding that the violence against journalists, government critics and members of the opposition must stop, said at a press conference today, the party spokesperson Petre Shilegov.
- We are talking specifically about the attack in which metal pipes were used yesterday against the owner of the news portal Dokaz.mk. In the attack, Marjan Stamenkovski ended up with a...
17 New Court Cases Against Journalists From the Start of This Year
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...
