Tag: 27 April
Macedonia 25.04.21 | 12:15

Thousands protest in downtown Skopje

Thousands of people are streaming to the center of Skopje to support the large rally and demand release for the political prisoners of the Zaev regime. The protest is organized by Macedonian diaspora groups, and supported by VMRO-DPMNE and other opposition parties.

Macedonia 25.04.21 | 11:39

LIVE: Large rally for release of the political prisoners

Thousands of people are gathering in downtown Skopje, for the large protest to demand the release of political prisoners held by the Zaev regime. The protest began at the Government building, and the crowd is moving toward the Parliament. You can follow the rally live, here – The protest is organized...

Macedonia 24.04.21 | 20:28

Macedonia must not forget those who are unjustly imprisoned: Final call before the large rally on Sunday

Justice must not be blind to this case. One day in prison is equal to a year when you are unjustly sentenced. Macedonia must not forget her sons, said VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski in his final appeal to the public to join the protests planned for tomorrow in downtown Skopje. The protest is held...

Macedonia 22.04.21 | 10:51

Large rally on Sunday in support of the political prisoners

VMRO-DPMNE official Timco Mucunski called on the citizens to come out and support the large rally planned for Sunday, in support of the political prisoners of the Zaev regime. We will come out on Sunday, because we know that justice is only attainable by changing the Zaev Government, Mucunski said. The...

Macedonia 01.02.21 | 15:21

Mihajlovski: “For United Macedonia” protests were against the change of the name and identity, which is being delivered today

Actor Toni Mihajlovski in Monday’s testimony in relation to the events of April 27 said that he took an active part in the GDOM movement but that they had no connection with VMRO-DPMME nor that they had any instruction from Mile Janakieski and Spiro Ristovski. Mihajlovski also said that GDOM had...

Macedonia 15.01.21 | 16:03

Witnesses deny involvement of the VMRO-DPMNE party in the April 27 incident

During the hearing in the April 27 trial today, a number of former and current VMRO-DPMNE officials testified that the party was not involved in orgaizing the protest. The trial is one of the series of politically motivated cases which the Zaev regime initiated against VMRO-DPMNE, and in it party officials...

Macedonia 22.12.20 | 10:00

Mickoski summoned as a witness for “April 27” case

VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski has been summoned as a witness for today’s hearing in the “April 27” case. Besides him, the former mayor of Skopje Koce Trajanovski and Vladimir Neloski were also summoned. At today’s hearing an expert will present the forensic examination...

Macedonia 27.11.20 | 11:21

Veljanoski, Janakieski and Risteski are not organizers and creators of “April 27”, Zaev tells the court

The Prime Minister Zoran Zaev told Friday the court that the defendants Trajko Veljanoski, Mile Janakieski and Spiro Risteski are not organizers of the events of April 27. He surprisingly pointed out that they are not the main culprits, although the proceedings in the trial are conducted against them. I...

Macedonia 13.11.20 | 12:16

Gjorcev: VMRO-DPMNE lost the most on 27 April, someone wanted problems to happen

Former MP Vlatko Gjorcev today in the Criminal Court in Skopje spoke about the events before and after April 27, 2017. As a long-term MP, he assessed that the whole procedure would have been completed in a week if all the registered discussants had been expected to finish their speeches. That day, he...

Macedonia 13.11.20 | 11:31

Ibraimi: Singing the Albanian anthem was my personal decision, I had the right to a procedural address

Former MP Zekirija Ibraimi testified Friday in the Skopje Criminal Court over the events of April 27, 2017. He described how the whole day went and that as a deputy coordinator he had a meeting with the then Parliament Speaker Trajko Veljanoski, which was also attended by Radmila Sekerinska. It was then...

Macedonia 10.09.20 | 14:55

Dimovski: There was no decision in the party to support the “For a United Macedonia” movement

There was no decision in the party to support the “For a United Macedonia” movement, said former MP Ilija Dimovski at Thursday’s hearing in relation to the events of “April 27”. He says that he was the coordinator of the parliamentary group of VMRO-DPMNE and that he knows...

Macedonia 04.09.20 | 13:11

Micevski: There was no plan to storm the Parliament in 2017

Nikola Micevski, member of Parliament for VMRO-DPMNE, testified that there was no plan to violently enter the Parliament during the April 27 2017 incident. He told the court that the representatives did not know what is about to happen in evening hours, when the SDSM and DUI parties staged an irregular...

Macedonia 10.07.20 | 09:55

Durlovski entered Parliament to kill me, accuses Sekerinska

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Radmila Sekerinska accused that her rival in the fifth electoral district Igor Durlovski of entering the Parliament on April 27 to kill her. I do not have the desire to debate with the man who entered the Parliament to kill me or to organize others who will...

Macedonia 27.05.20 | 13:20

Appeals Court begins hearing in the 27 April incident trial

The Skopje Appeals Court begins the public hearing in the trial of former Interior Minister Mitko Cavkov and 15 others charged in the highly politicized 27 April incident trial. Cavkov and the others, including protesters such as Jane Cento and Interior Ministry officials, were given long prison sentences...

Macedonia 15.05.20 | 15:41

New defeat for Ruskovska: Witness Mladenovski confirms that the storming of Parliament was organized by Ninja

Witness Stefan Mladenovski in his testimony, among other things, said that everything was coordinated by Ninja and the storming of Parliament happened on his order. Mladenovski did not mention anywhere that the protests and events were organized by a political party, and it is indicative that Vilma Ruskovska...

Macedonia 13.05.20 | 15:54

Prosecutor Ruskoska failed to advance her case in the April 27 trial

Prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska had difficulty presenting her case during the trial in the April 27 incident today. Ruskoska, one of the top SDSM party loyalists in the judiciary, is prosecuting a group of former VMRO-DPMNE party officials, alleging their involvement in the 2017 incident in the Parliament. She...

Macedonia 11.01.20 | 10:27

Gruevski: New April 27 indictment politically motivated

Former prime minister Nikola Gruevski in a Facebook post on Friday evening denied having anything to do with the Parliament storming on April 27, 2017. It’s a lie, the news that the VMRO-DPMNE party or I organized the storming of Parliament on April 27, 2017, Gruevski wrote, adding that the indictment...

Macedonia 06.12.19 | 17:05

No assessment of the indictment against the April 27 organizers: Defense requests the case to be taken by the court in The Hague

Today’s attempt for court assessment of the indictment against the organizers of the “bloody Thursday” also failed. The defense is seeking one of the judges to be taken off the because she has handled other cases related to April 27, as well as the case to be taken by the International...

Macedonia 02.12.19 | 14:45

Kacarska’s unconstitutional nebulousness in “April 27” case also published by Columbia University

Columbia University will hold lectures on judge Dobrila Kacarska as an example of how a procedure should not be led. One of the most prestigious universities in the world published on its official website the case in which judge Dobrila Kacarska unconstitutionally punished lawyers in the April 27 case...

Macedonia 22.11.19 | 21:58

Deskoska confirmed, Ruskoska worked in agreement with the government: Amnesties in “April 27 case” were in exchange for constitutional amendments

Asked on the “Samo vistina” show whether she or any of the authorities had influence on prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska, Justice Minister Renata Deskoska said that she personally does not have, but cannot guarantee that for anybody else. I personally do not have, and I cannot comment about others,...

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