Macedonia - Outspoken columnist threatened, his car torched

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns recent intimidation attempts targeting Branko Trickovski, a columnist for the opposition newspaper Sloboden Pecat, and calls on the authorities to protect him. The former editor of the newspapers Utrinski Vesnik and Globus, Trickovski received death threats and his car was set on fire on 13 May after he posted comments on Facebook about the events in Kumanovo at the start of the month in which eight policemen died. “We condemn this attack on Branko (...)

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