Tag: 27 April
Macedonia 20.05.23 | 21:21

The verdict in Strasbourg proves that the Government is using the judiciary against political opponents

VMRO-DPMNE officials said that the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, which found in favor of one of the victims of politically motivated trials in Macedonia, is proof of the widespread abuses in the country. ECHR ruled in favor of Elena Docevska Bozinovska, a Parliament clerk...
Macedonia 20.05.23 | 15:28

ECHR found that Zaev’s judiciary violated the rights of one of the April 27th defendants

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg found that the judiciary violated the rights of Elena Docevska Bozinovska, official of the Parliament who was arrested for alleged involvement in the 2017 storming of this building. Bozinovska was assistant to Speaker Trajko Veljanoski and was singled...
Macedonia 03.04.23 | 18:11

Appeals Court throws out April 27th sentences, sends the case back to the lower court

The Skopje Appeals Court accepted appeals from the defendants in the April 27th trial and returned the process back for retrial. The case is aimed against former Parliament Speaker Trajko Veljanoski, two former ministers Spiro Ristovski and Mile Janakieski, and former state security chief Vladimir Atanasovski,...
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 27.04.22 | 15:51

Silence is golden, silence is evil: Bars cannot restrict the freedom of the spirit, nor the love of the homeland!

Opera singer and one of the leaders of the “For a United Macedonia” movement Igor Durlovski today with a protest performance marked five years since the events of April 27. He was sitting behind improvised bars in front of the Macedonian Parliament building with a tape on his mouth. The cage,...
Macedonia 18.03.22 | 17:04

President Pendarovski gives partial pardon to one of the April 27th political prisoners, but has no intention to release the rest

President Stevo Pendarovski’s office announced that he will not give a broad pardon to the political prisoners from the April 27th trial, after he pardoned one of them – the only ethnic Albanian Abduljfeta Alimi. Alimi was member of the Parliament’s security detail and was sentenced...
Macedonia 04.11.21 | 21:39

NSA agent and person amnestied for April 27 events blackmailed a construction businessman with a non-existent investigation

A person employed with the National Security Agency (NSA) was arrested this afternoon as part of an investigation by the Skopje Prosecutor’s Office. The Ministry of Interior did not provide details. Two people were arrested in the operation, one of whom is an employee of the secret service NSA,...
Macedonia 30.07.21 | 18:15

Pendarovski: “April 27” case verdicts have no logic

If Gruevski is not here, then it is very difficult to get the real picture for April 27, said President Stevo Pendarovski at Friday’s press briefing. According to him, if the main argument of the prosecution is that the session was conducted contrary to the rules of procedure, then the defendants...
Macedonia 26.07.21 | 16:37

Arsovski: Verdict in “April 27” case is unfounded and politically motivated

The verdict in the “April 27” case is unfounded, with the intention of torturing Zaev’s political enemies, but there will come a time when answers will have to be given for such decisions, said Dimce Arsovski, spokesperson for VMRO DPMNE. As long as Zoran Zaev is in power there will...
Macedonia 26.07.21 | 10:21

Sentencing expected in the second April 27th trial

The Skopje court is expected to hand the sentences in the second April 27th trial today. The highly politicized case charges several former VMRO-DPMNE officials, such as former Speaker Trajko Veljanoski and former ministers Mile Janakieski and Spiro Ristoski, with organizing the protests that ended with...
Macedonia 12.07.21 | 15:30

Ristevski: The prosecution did not show a piece of evidence to prove that April 27th was a planned event

During his closing remarks, former Minister Spiro Ristevski testified that he was not involved in organizing the protests For a United Macedonia. Ristevski is one of the defendants in the second trial over the April 27th incident in the Parliament, with the defendants including former Prime Minister...
Macedonia 06.07.21 | 11:58

Milanov: The constitutional order hasn’t been violated, we are a parliamentary democracy before and after April 27

Lawyer Elenko Milanov said in today’s closing arguments in the “April 27” case that it is meaningless that the prosecution claims that the constitutional order has been violated, but not that the security of the country has been violated, which is not mentioned anywhere. The prosecution...
Macedonia 01.07.21 | 11:38

Near the end of the April 27th trial, Prosecutor Ruskoska surprisingly announces that she is revising the charges

On the hearing dedicated to the closing statements, Prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska surprised the court and the defense with an announcement that she is revising the charges in the April 27th trial. There is still no clarity over what the revised charges will be. The defense protested this move by the prosecutor,...
Macedonia 15.06.21 | 12:10

As the April 27th trial draws to a close, the prosecution’s case remains based only on the testimony of one witness

The second trial inthe April 27th incident draws to a close, and the sentencing is expected on July 1st. In it, the Zaev regime is again going after a group of former VMRO-DPMNE officials, after initially using the original trial over the 2017 incident in the Parliament to blackmail VMRO-DPMNE members...
Macedonia 21.05.21 | 13:43

Mickoski: The April 27th defendants deserve a retrial

The defendants from the April 27th trial have right to seek a retrial, if new evidence is presented, said VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski in his Fokus interview. Mickoski pointed to other politically divisive cases like the 2002 Sopot mine attack and the 2012 Good Friday massacre, in which the sentenced...
Macedonia 11.05.21 | 15:54

Strasbourg court accepts appeal regarding April 27 case punishments

Lawyer Ruzica Nikolovska wrote Tuesday on Facebook  that the appeal regarding the punishments in the “April 27” case has been accepted by the Strasbourg court and it will be reviewed, and she hopes the it will make the right decision. In the case known to the public as “April 27”...
Macedonia 05.05.21 | 15:26

“The April 27th defendants should be held accountable for what they did, but not for crimes they didn’t commit”

The defendants from April 27th should be held accountable for what they did, but not for crimes they didn’t commit, said VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski, announcing that he will meet with President Stevo Pendarovski on Friday to discuss their position. We are not asking for mercy or for...
Macedonia 27.04.21 | 20:30

Gruevski: SDSM provoked the April 27th incident

Former Prime Minister and VMRO leader Nikola Gruevski responded to the renewed allegations from the SDSM party over the April 27th 2017 incident in the Parliament. The issue of the incident when hundreds of protesters stormed the Parliament as SDSM and its Albanian coalition partners were staging an...
Macedonia 27.04.21 | 14:48

Mickoski: We demand unconditional justice for politically motivated cases

In a statement for the media regarding the case of April 27 and the Parliament events, VMRO-DPMNE leader, Hristijan Mickoski said Tuesday in Petrovec that Macedonia is the only country with so many “terrorists” in prisons and draconian sentences. He said the demands are in the direction...
Macedonia 25.04.21 | 15:12

Protesters demand release of the imprisoned patriots and early elections in October

The organizers of the protests held in downtown Skopje today demanded the urgent release of all political prisoners and early general elections. It is not acceptable that the protesters of the movement for United Macedonia are tried as terrorists, while the actual terrorists from the 2001 war hold the...
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