In the latest hearing over the “27 April Parliament Incidents” case, Bishop Pimen from the Macedonian Orthodox Church provided his testimony of the Parliament Incidents, as a witness called by the defence of Bogdan Ilievski – Betmen. Pimen said that he is a close friend and spiritual father of Ilievski. “Bogdan was not doing this for some kind of material ...

The parliamentary Committee on National Reconciliation has finalised the draft-law on amnesty concerning the “27 April Parliament Incidents” case. “We reached a consensus that was accepted by all the members of the committee. The draft-law predicts amnesty for people involved in the incidents who have neither committed violence or were the organisers of the incidents. The defendants will be given ...

The former Speaker of the Macedonian Parliament Trajko Veljanoski provided his testimony on Tuesday as a witness of the defence in the “27 April Parliament Incidents” case. During the hearing, Veljanoski provided short answers to the questions asked by Judge Dobrila Kacarska. “I was not aware that someone is preparing to intrude the Parliament on 27 April 2017. I was ...

At the new hearing over “27 April Parliament Incidents” case in the Criminal Court in Skopje, one of the defendants, Mihail Mladenovski, revealed that the intrusion in the Parliament has been organised by the then management of the Department for Security and Counter-intelligence (UBK). “All the instructions we got came from then Head of UBK Vladimir Atanasovski, and organised by ...