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Macedonia's Special Prosecution Fends off Joint Attacks
Macedonia's Helsinki Committee for Human Rights has condemned fresh attacks on the work of the Special Prosecution office, SJO, calling it absurd for the same judicial institutions that have been pinpointed for years in international reports as problematic to target the work of the SJO.
Macedonia Shootout Suspects Want Politicians to Testify
Lawyers for 37 defendants accused of participating in the shootout with police that left 18 people dead in the northern Macedonian town of Kumanovo want a retired police general who is now head of the small opposition Dignity party, Stojance Angelov, and the head of the junior party in the country's ruling coalition, Democratic Union for Integration chief Ali Ahmeti, to appear as witnesses.
Macedonians Urged to Rally in Defence of Special Prosecution
Activists have called on Macedonians to protest in Skopje on Monday at 5pm in defence of the Special Prosecution, SJO - which they say is again being smeared and attacked by the government and by the media under control of the ruling VMRO DPMNE party.
Macedonia Opposition Calls Court Ruling a Trap
The Social Democrats' vice-president, Radmila Shekerinska, said Monday's ruling of the Skopje Criminal Court, which said tapes provided by the opposition cannot be used as evidence in court, was a provocation aimed at forcing them to quit talks on the EU-brokered crisis deal signed in June.
She said Macdonia's main ruling party was the real actor behind the court decision.
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Macedonia Court Rejects Opposition Tapes As Evidence
In a shock ruling, the Skopje Criminal Court has ruled that compromising tapes of officials' conversations provided by the opposition cannot be used as evidence in court.
Macedonian Opposition Head Defies Courts
Zaev said he would stop appearing in courts each Monday as ordered, and would not show up at trial hearings in the cases against him, inviting the country's courts, which he accuses of working under political dictate, to put him in detention.
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Macedonia Court Approves Back Leader's Trial
The Criminal Court in Skopje has rejected the arguments by the defence for the opposition Social Democrat leader, Zoran Zaev, and has ruled that he should face trial in a case in which the chief witness is his main political opponent, Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski.
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Macedonia Court to Rule on Trial for Zaev
Lawyers for Zaev and the other defendants in the case want the Skopje Criminal Court to dismiss the charges against them and confirm that grounds for criminal prosecution and a trial do not exist.
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Macedonia Set to Free Jailed Priest
Jovan Vraniskovski might be out of prison as early as Monday, December 17, a source from Macedonia's Idrizovo prison told BIRN, after the state prosecution and the Skopje criminal court approved his release.
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Archbishop of Ohrid Jovan remains in prison
Archbishop of Ohrid Jovan remains in prison
SKOPJE -- The Macedonian Appellate Court confirmed the first instance ruling against Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje Jovan Vraniskovski.
He was sentenced to three years of imprisonment on charges for embezzlement of EUR 250,000.
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