Tag: cento
Macedonia 02.03.24 | 20:10

Political prisoners give their support to Gordana Siljanovska

Several prominent political prisoners of the Zaev – SDSM regime, who were persecuted during the Colored Revolution campaign, expressed their support for Gordana Siljanovska – Davkova, in her presidential run. Former Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska, who spent over three years in prison,...

Macedonia 04.06.23 | 18:06

Political prisoner Jane Cento allowed to spend a weekend with his family for first time in six years

Jane Cento, one of the most high profile political prisoners in Macedonia, was released to spend a weekend with his family and his son – for the first time after six years in prison. Cento is sentenced for terrorism over the April 27th incident in the Parliament. He was singled out among the hundreds...

Macedonia 17.03.23 | 11:34

Political prisoners sentenced in the April 27th trial react to the failed attempt to give them amnesty

Jane Cento and Igor Jug, two of the political prisoners sentenced to long terms in prison as “terrorists” over the April 27th attack in the Parliament, issued statements after yesterday’s failed vote on a law that would’ve given them amnesty. The law was proposed by independent...

Macedonia 20.03.22 | 19:40

Political prisoner Jane Cento reacts to the light sentences for SDSM’s Colored Revolution activists – they broke the Macedonian spirit

SDSM tried to break the Macedonian spirit when it gave us Draconian prison sentences, and unfortunately, they succeeded, said political prisoner Jane Cento in his latest statement from the Stip prison. Cento was sentenced to 15 years in prison for participating in the April 27th incident in the Parliament....

Macedonia 24.07.21 | 22:02

Macedonia marks the 64th anniversary of the death of its first President, while his family remains persecuted to this day

On the 64th anniversary of the death of Macedonia’s first post-war President Metodija Andonov – Cento, his great-grandson Jane Cento said that his ideals live on. Jane Cento is sentenced to 15 years in prison for terrorism by the Zaev regime, over the April 27th 2017 incident in the Parliament. Eternal...

Macedonia 23.04.21 | 12:42

Cento urges protesters to come on Sunday carrying only Macedonian flags, leave partisan symbols at home

Jane Cento, political prisoner of the Zaev regime, urged protesters who will rally on Sunday to leave their partisan flags at home and come carrying only Macedonian flags. This is a rally of all Macedonians and we need to demonstrate virtue and tolerance, while putting the differences among us aside....

Macedonia 28.11.20 | 10:40

Unbroken: Jane Cento begins his fourth year in prison

Political prisoner Jane Cento finished the third year in prison, since the mass arrests of opposition activists in late 2017. The great-grandson of Macedonia’s first President Metodija Andonov – Cento is sentenced to 15 years in prison for “terrorism”, because he took part in...

Macedonia 02.08.20 | 14:25

VMRO officials honor Metodija Andonov – Cento

VMRO-DPMNE officials Vladimir Misajlovski and Timco Mucunski honored Macedonia’s first President Metodija Andonov – Cento, who chaired the WW2 ASNOM assembly when Macedonia was declared a state. The Government toned down its honoring of Cento, who was persecuted by the Yugoslav Communist...

Macedonia 17.04.20 | 14:35

Police preparing charges against 21 participants in the Cento riot

The Interior Ministry is preparing criminal charges against 21 participants in the small scale riot that occurred in Skopje’s Cento-Singelic district earlier this week. The men are being identified using available video footage from the incident, when dozens of ethnic Albanians took to the streets...

Macedonia 14.04.20 | 14:06

Culev: There is a political background to the incident in Skopje yesterday evening

Interior Minister Nake Culev said that the incident in Skopje’s Cento district yesterday evening, when dozens of ethnic Albanian citizens protested the curfew and the arrest of three of them, was politically motivated. Culev said that the police acted professionally after noticing photo evidence...

Macedonia 14.04.20 | 12:23

Mayor Georgievski defends his actions during the near riot in Cento

Following the near riot in one of Skopje’s north-eastern districts yesterday evening, local Mayor Boris Georgievski said that he went to the Cento area to calm down the protesters. He glossed over the fact that the protesters were activists of his own SDSM party, and that they were released from...

Macedonia 14.04.20 | 07:29

Protests break out in Skopje to free men who were arrested for violating the curfew

Dozens of ethnic Albanian citizens of Cento, a north-eastern part of Skopje, were protesting yesterday evening in violation of the coronavirus curfew, after two men were arrested by the police. According to local media, the arrests were made for violating the evening curfew, which mandates that all citizens...

Macedonia 24.07.19 | 10:37

New protests against expanding the methadone treatment program across Skopje

Citizens in the Skopje suburb of Cento are preparing to protest on Saturday against the planned opening of a methadone treatment program in their clinic. Several hundreds heroin addicts are currently treated in one center in Skopje, in Kisela Voda, but local citizens have been protesting for years against...

Macedonia 12.05.19 | 13:05

Cento: Don’t blame Ivanov for refusing to give us pardons, we have no idea what kind of threats he is being subjected to

As President Gjorge Ivanov’s mandate expires, he decided not to award last minute pardons to the victims of Zoran Zaev’s campaign of political persecution. Some of those imprisoned, like the 16 men sentenced to lengthy prison terms in the April 2017 trial, publicly asked Ivanov for pardons....

Macedonia 28.04.19 | 16:45

Cento warns boycott supporters that they may end up helping Pendarovski

One of the most prominent political prisoners of Zaev’s regime, Jane Cento, joined in the calls to right wing voters to support Gordana Siljanovska – Davkova in the second round of the presidential elections and to reject the calls to boycott the election. It is up to you whether you will...

Macedonia 19.04.19 | 23:15

Cento and Jug send out a final appeal to the public ahead of the presidential elections

In a final appeal, two Zaev’s political prisoners, Jane Cento and Igor Jug, called on the voters to support Gordana Siljanovska for President. They both refused Zaev’s offer of amnesty and were sentenced to lengthy prison sentences over the April 2017 incident in the Parliament. It is time...

Macedonia 15.04.19 | 11:31

Writing from prison, Cento calls on the voters to support the VMRO candidate

Political prisoner Jane Cento called on the public to support opposition candidate Gordana Siljanovska – Davkova, as the best way to begin undermining the Zaev regime and to put an end to its campaign of persecution. Cento, who is the heir of the family name of Macedonia’s first President...

Macedonia 12.01.19 | 11:16

Cento: Long live the Republic of Macedonia

Jane Cento, heir to the Cento family name and political prisoner of the Zaev Government, called on the Macedonians not to give up after the vote to rename the country. No man is defeated while he still has courage. No country either. The people make the country and we are the people. The struggle for...