On Friday, three of the leaders of the protests in 2017, Vlado Jovanovski, Boris Damovski and Bogdan Ilievski, received an amnesty within the frameworks of the process concerning the 27 April 2017 attacks in Parliament. That means that 15 persons, including the MPs, were amnestied. The remaining 14 didn’t meet the conditions. According to the Criminal Court, the process to ...

On Thursday, the Criminal Court said the amnesty requests submitted to it over the case concerning the 27 April 2017 attacks in Parliament had been sent to the relevant prosecutor’s office for an opinion. Once the opinion is obtained, the Court will make within the legal deadline decisions that will be submitted to the parties. The public will be informed ...

The deadline to file requests in the case concerning the 27 April 2017 attacks in Parliament has expired. The former Director of the Public Security Bureau, Mitko Cavkov, hasn’t filed a request, his lawyer, Saso Dukovski, said on Wednesday. Four other defendants, Igor Jug, Jane Cento, Igor Durlovski and Dusko Lazarov, haven’t filed a request either. The Criminal Court has ...

The European Commission welcomed the adoption of the Law on Amnesty for the Incidents that occurred in the Parliament of Macedonia on 27 April 2017. In a written statement, the Spokesperson of the EC Maja Kocijancic estimates the law as an opportunity for reconciliation on all levels of the Macedonian society. “This decision of the Parliament is an important step ...

Aleksandar Vasilevski – Nindza, a defendant in the trial focusing on the Parliament Incidents from 27 April 2017, provided his testimony of the events at the hearing held on Thursday. Vasilevski said in his testimony that people from VMRO-DPMNE have organised the events leading to the incidents and the intrusion in the Parliament itself. “VMRO-DPMNE formed “For Joint Macedonia”, and ...

The Parliamentary Committee for National Reconciliation claims that it is facing certain obstacles in the preparation of the draft-law on amnesty after the newest details revealed about the Parliament Incidents that occurred on 27 April 2017. Some of the group members from the independent MP group of VMRO-DPMNE stated that because of the details revealed in the recent testimonies in ...

The MPs which are defendants in the judicial case focusing on the incidents that occurred in the Parliament of Macedonia on 27 April 2017, Ljuben Arnaudov, Krsto Mukoski, Saso Vasilevski, Ljupco Dimovski and Johan Tarculovski gave up on the opportunity to provide defence before the court in this case. The lawyer of Mukoski informed that his client has withdrawn on ...

The Parliament officially rejected the draft-law on full amnesty for participants in the Parliament Incidents on 27 April 2017, filed by VMRO-DPMNE. “This law focuses on amnesty for all participants in the incidents; those charged and convicted for violence, for the attempted murder of MP Zijadin Sela, and for terroristic organising and endangering of the state’s security. If the government ...