The Amnesty law cut in half the number of defendants in the trial for the April 27 events in parliament. The number of defendants can be further reduced if the Court of Appeals decided to accept the complaints of some of the defendants who initially did not receive amnesty before the Christmas holidays. It should […]
The five MPs of the parliamentary group charged with the violence on April 27 will be able to seek and receive amnesty for themselves. This will be provided by the new Amnesty law, whose draft-proposal was agreed on in the legislature yesterday. With it, there will be no amnesty for the organizers of the bloody […]
Johan Tarculovski, who is one of the accused MPs for the April 27 events, says it is still too early to say whether he will seek amnesty in accordance with today’s draft text in the parliament for selective amnesty. According to the draft law, there will be no amnesty for the organizers and the perpetrators, […]
Everyone wants to get on the boat of amnesty in a situation of incredible political and legal stunts to pay the price for Euro-Atlantic integration, ie to find some compromise between what is called individual responsibility for April 27 and the integration of the country into NATO and the EU. More than 600 prisoners serving […]
There is no plan for drafting a law on general amnesty with regard to 27 April 2017 Parliament incidents, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said on Monday. Discussions are underway only for a possibility amnesty to be granted only to those who were not involved in masterminding, organizing the attack on Parliament and in the acts […]
Two days before the protest announced by the main opposition party VMRO-DPMNE against the arrests for the April 27 events, Parliament failed in the attempt to persuade the opposition party’s parliamentary group to push through a law for an overall amnesty for the so-called “Bloody Thursday”. Therefore, tomorrow, before the VMRO-DPMNE’s protest, it is expected that the […]
– The draft-law on amnesty of the suspected, indicted and convicted persons over the April 27 intrusion in Parliament, filed by VMRO-DPMNE, has not received the required majority to be discussed at the 66. Parliament session. Nevenka Stamenkovska from VMRO-DPMNE said in the law’s elaboration that it encompasses all persons that have already received first-instance […]
The MPs, who opened the doors of the Assembly to the protesters on April 27, 2017, are now “suspected” as possible voters of the government’s proposal to start the constitutional changes. Such an impression was created yesterday rafter equests for the release from house arrest of three of the five deputies covered by the process […]
The Macedonian Parliament at a session on Monday adopted the Law on Amnesty under which some 670 people sentenced to at least six month in prison will be fully exempted from serving time. Also, 3,097 convicts will see their prison sentenced cut down by 30%. The amnesty law doesn’t cover people sentenced to life, those serving […]
