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5 years since the Bloody Thursday rampage in North Macedonia: Instead of peaceful transfer of power – effort for imposing complete dictatorship!

Today marks the 5th anniversary since the "Bloody Thursday", or the rampage in the Parliament of Macedonia (Now: North Macedonia) that occurred on the 27th of April 2017 when a group of people, including members of the security services, stormed the Parliament under the dictate of the then ruling party VMRO-DPMNE wanting to prevent a peaceful transfer of power. It...

Total of 25-year prison sentences for organizers of violent storming of Parliament of Macedonia

The Criminal Court – Skopje today announced the verdict in the case “Organizers of the 27th of April” and proclaimed the defendants guilty, giving them a total of 25 years of prison sentences. On 27th of April 2017, a mob stormed the Parliament of Macedonia building in Skopje and had severely beaten dozens of MPs, parliament clerks and journalists and...

Journalists are suing the state for failing to punish the assailants who stormed the Macedonian Parliament on 27 April 2017

At the end of April, three journalists from North Macedonia - Nataša Stojanovska, Dušica Mrgja and Goran Trpenoski, victims of the violent storming of the Macedonian Parliament on 27 April 2017, filed a private lawsuit against the state for a violation of the right to freedom of expression and compensation for non-pecuniary damage. The lawsuit was filed as a sign...