Torture Case: Verdict to be Announced 17 June

The verdict in the Torture case, which concerns the arrest of United for Macedonia President Ljube Boskoski in June 2011, will be announced on 17 June. Among the defendants in the case is former Security and Counter-Intelligence Administration Director Saso Mijalkov. During Monday’s closing arguments, the defence said it was the Ministry’s Public Security Bureau, not the Administration, that had organised and conducted the detaining. Judge Aleksandra Ristovska is in charge of the process.