Several FYROM’s pro-government media and VMRO-DPMNE’s high party officials launched an anti-American campaign, after State Department’s human rights report about FYROM. The latest report of the State Department blasted FYROM for freedom and human rights abuses and failings, including freedom of media, judiciary, police and other segments. A former spokesman of FYROM’s leading party asked “why the State Department has no report on Guantanamo“. […]

FYROM responsible for torture, ill-treatment and secret rendition of a man suspected of terrorist ties In today’s Grand Chamber judgment in the case of El-Masri v. “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” (application no. 39630/09), which is final1, the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been: a violation of Article 3 (prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment) of […]

European court of human rights hears case of Khaled el-Masri, detained in Skopje before alleged torture in Afghanistan by CIA Europe’s human rights court began hearing the first case arising from the US’s post-9/11 rendition programme on Wednesday, when the government of FYROM went on trial accused of multiple human rights abuses of a German citizen. Khaled el-Masri, 48, a car salesman of Lebanese […]

These series of articles will expose to public eyes how FYROM’s Propaganda machine works. Especially the massive internet campaign used by Slavic propagandists from FYROM with sole aim to deceive the readers while misrepresenting and manipulating well-evidenced historical events to fit their petty nationalistic agenda. It is sometimes hard for the unsuspected reader who is frequently confronted by deceitful attempts to believe false […]

As Professor of Journalism, Roy Greenslade, recently noted in the London Evening Standard, Turkey does not just have a press freedom problem. It is, in fact, the “globe’s leading jailer of journalists“. According to the organisations that compile figures on such things, Turkey has imprisoned more journalists than any other country: more than Iran, more than China, more than North […]

By Daniel Steinvorth and Yassin Musharbash REUTERS Turkish soldiers on patrol in a Kurdish area of southeastern Turkey: Did the Turkish military use chemical weapons against the PKK? German experts have confirmed the authenticity of photographs that purport to show PKK fighters killed by chemical weapons. The evidence puts increasing pressure on the Turkish government, which has long been suspected […]

By US Congressman John Sarbanes Turkey has been getting a lot of attention recently. American foreign policymakers, among others, are beginning to realize that the United States cannot count on its ally Turkey in a pinch. But American surprise and dismay at Turkey’s increasing petulance on the world stage and among its NATO peers reflects just how naive the U.S. […]

(Photo: actagainsttorture.org) TURKEY - Torture and ill-treatment still prevail in Turkey, despite the government’s declaration of ‘zero tolerance’ for torture, almost six years ago. In a report of Human Right Association (IHD) and Human Right Foundation of Turkey (HRFT), the situation seems to get much worst than previous years in reference to Torture and inhuman treatment. The Human Rights Organizations, whose experts carry out periodic […]

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights of the FYROM opposes the press release of the Synod of the FYROMian Orthodox Church – Ohrid Archbishopric (MOC-OA) [sic] issued on 11.03.2010, which violates the human rights of certain groups of citizens of the FYROM, enhances their stigmatization and contrary to the basic teachings of this institution, spreads hatred and takes over the […]

Betrayal of Souls and Denial of the Genocide Gregg Rickman Cutting Edge human rights analyst Ottoman soldiers and mass hangings of Armenians Credit: James Nazer (Photo @cutting edge) In the book The Guilt of Nations, Elazar Barkan wrote, “For a ‘new’ history to become more than a partisan ‘extremist’ story, the narrative often has to persuade not only […]