HELSINKI COMMITTEE ROASTS THE OMBUDSMAN AND POLICE UNIT "ALFA" The Macedonian Helsinki Committee (HC) has severely criticized the work of the Ombudsman and of the police unit "Alfa" in its report on human rights dating from December 2005 and January 2006. HC claims that there have been overwhelming evidence showing that police unit "Alfa" has been ...

Skopje February 16, 2006 MIRJANA NAJCEVSKA - THERE ARE NO SECRET PRISON IN FYROM, ONLY SECRET POLICE HOUSES "There are no secret prison in Macedonia, but only secret police houses where people are been tortured", Helsinki Committee's (HC) President, Mirjana Najcevska told "Makfax", commenting on the case of Kaled el-Masri. "The Council of Europe is wrong when saying ...

Strasbourg Court to Rule on SlavoMacedonian Roma Torture Case for the First Time in its History Budapest, Skopje, 11 May 2006. In a decision communicated last week, the European Court of Human Rights has declared admissible the application of Mr. Pejrusan Jasar against Macedonia. On 16 April 1998, Mr. Pejrusan Jasar, a Romani man from Stip, Macedonia, was in a ...

http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/macedonia/ Police Abuse Against Albanians Continues in Macedonia "Persistent police abuse in Macedonia is simply shocking. Macedonia must urgently address the violence in its police stations. Ethnic Albanians are being severely abused, and in some cases beaten to death, without the slightest prospect of accountability. " http://hrw.org/english/docs/2001/08/22/macedo1477.htm Macedonian Troops Commit Grave Abuses "The Macedonian government must answer to the people ...

16 June 2006, Budapest, Skopje. The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) and  the National Roma Centrum (NRC) sent a letter to Dr. Vlado Buckovski, Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia expressing grave concern about the recent death of a Romani youth named Trajan Bekirov, and urging that Macedonian authorities to carry out a prompt, thorough and ...

From greek newspaper 'Kathimerini'. The mural dates from 1568 and anyone can see it in Moni Docheiareiou in Mt. Athos. The monastery of Docheiareiou appears to date back to the early years of the eleventh century. From one side it says 'Alexander King of the Hellenes' and from the other 'Augustus King of the Romans'