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Alert created on: 22 Sep 2016
"The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"
Extended Pre-Trial Detention of Journalist Zoran Bozinovski
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CategoryDetention and imprisonment of journalists
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Macedonian journalist Zoran Bozinovski has been spending five months in detention in Skopje, after his extradiction from Serbia where he had spent another 18 months detained. The prosecutor's office in Skopje needed four months to deliver the formal indictment for alleged espionnage, blackmail and criminal association. The journalists' organisations in the country, the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (ZNM-AJM) and the Trade Union of Macedonian Journalists and Media Workers (SSNM), consider that the case against Bozinovski is not based on material evidence and is politically construed by the Macedonian Government with the intention to silence a journalist who covered many corruption cases in which public officials were involved. AJM and SSNM demand the court to abolish Bozinovski's detention and to drop charges against him.
Updates
01 Sep 2017
On 14 July 2017, the Skopje Criminal Court released Zoran Božinovski on bail at the request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Additional Information
- Article published on Global Voices : "Spy’ Trial Against Macedonian Journalist Is Postponed Amid Calls for His Release "
- Article published on Balkan Insight: "Macedonian Journalists Demand Release of Zoran Bozinovski"
- EFJ and IFJ statement: "Macedonia: Free Zoran Bozinovski "
- Statement from the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (ZNM-AJM): "Bozinovski extradition is politically motivated"
- Article published on the South East European Media Observatory website : "AJM: We demand fair and effective trial for Bozinovski "