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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 28.01.20 | 17:10

Former Interior Minister Mitko Cavkov begins prison hunger strike after he was denied the right to a surgery

Former Interior Minister Mitko Cavkov announced that he will begin a hunger strike, because the warden of the Stip prison, where is he serving out a lengthy “terrorism” sentence, will not allow him to operate his knee. This is a violation of my constitutional right to healthcare. The warden...
Macedonia 04.12.19 | 22:02

Constitutional Court rejects Cavkov’s challenge to the selective amnesty law

The Constitutional Court rejected a request from the lawyers representing former Interior Minister Mitko Cavkov to amend the amnesty law brought at the start of 2019. Under the law, three members of Parliament from VMRO-DPMNE – Krsto Mukoski, Ljuben Arnaudov and Saso Vasilevski, as well as a number...
Macedonia 06.07.19 | 21:06

High profile political prisoner Mitko Cavkov transferred to the Stip prison

Political prisoner Mitko Cavkov was transferred from the Sutka prison near Skopje to the Stip prison yesterday evening. The former Interior Minister, who was sentenced as a “terrorist” in the April 2017 trial, is sentenced to 18 years in prison. Stip prison warden Miki Todorov said that the...
Macedonia 15.03.19 | 15:44

Zaev personally announced the process against Mitko Cavkov

The 18 years long prison sentence handed to former Interior Minister Mitko Cavkov by judge Dobrila Kacarska was announced by Zoran Zaev a day after the 2017 incident in the Parliament. Bolstered by support from the US State Department and the EU foreign policy chief, Zaev then announced that his party...
News 13.03.19 | 15:15

Gruevski: Cavkov’s arrest is the result of Zoran Zaev’s personal vendetta against him

The Government is exacting its revenge on former Interior Minister Mitko Cavkov on personal orders from Zoran Zaev, said former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. Mitko Cavkov is an innocent victim of political persecution. The incident in the Parliament resulted after the deliberate and unlawful move to...
Macedonia 13.03.19 | 12:42

Fake testimony used to order detention of former Interior Minister Mitko Cavkov

Saso Dukovski, lawyer to former Interior Minister Mitko Cavkov, says that his client was detained on Monday evening based on an unreliable statement from an alleged friend who claimed that Cavkov plans to leave Macedonia for Greece. The statement alleged that Cavkov owns a house east of Solun/Thessaloniki,...
Macedonia 13.03.19 | 10:56

Professor Kalajdziev: Ordering detention before sentencing for Mitko Cavkov is unprecedented

Law professor and former pro-SDSM Colored Revolution activist Gordan Kalajdziev condemned the detention order against former Interior Minister Mitko Cavkov as unprecedented. Cavkov, who refused amnesty and awaits sentencing in the April 2017 case, was arrested on Tuesday evening, ahead of the sentencing,...
Macedonia 06.02.19 | 14:42

Lawyers for the remaining political prisoners make their final statements

Defense attorneys continued their final remarks in the trial against the remaining defendants in the trial over the April 2017 incident in the Parliament. While the accused members of Parliament and protest organizers received pardons as part of their deal to vote in favor of renaming the country into...

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