Amnesty International urged FYROM’s government to  stop its attempts to extinguish freedom of expression. This event took place  after  three of the country’s newspapers, namely the newspapers Spic, Vreme, and Koha e re, were shut down.  The aforementioned newspapers were all owned by the detained media tycoon Velija Ramkovski and were closed down at the weekend, ostensibly due to unpaid taxes demanded by the […]

The failure to uphold the free expression is a worrying sign for the future of press freedom in the Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia. This shows the recent dismissal of Journalists from Kanal 5 TV under “vague reasons”. The journalists who were dismissed have already complained to FYROM’s PM Nikola Gruevski and also to the owner of the Kanal 5 […]