Macedonia - Reporter sentenced to four and a half years in prison

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is shocked by the four-and-a-half-year jail sentence that a court in Skopje passed today on the journalist Tomislav Kezarovski on a charge of revealing a protected witness's identity in a murder case in 2008, although the witness recently testified that he gave false evidence against the accused killers. Kezarovski pleaded not guilty and has appealed against today's conviction. He covered the case in 2008 for the magazine Reporter 92. “The court passed an extremely (...)

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