Group of journalists, physical attack, Skopje, 13.04.2016

Translations: Skopje 

• Case info

• Personal info

• Regional center

  Skopje
• Gender

  Male

• Media outlet

• Type of media platform

  Radio
  Printed Media
  Online Media
  

• Incident Data

• Date of incident

  13.04.2016
• Perpetrator(s)

  Not known
• Attacked by

  Authorities - individuals
  
• Type of incident

  Actual attacks on journalists

• Action by the authorities

• Action taken by the journalists' association

• Was journalist's association informed by the journalists directly?

  Yes

A group of journalists including photojournalists, were physically assaulted by the police while monitoring the protest against the decision of the president of the Republic of Macedonia, which took place in front of his office. A police officer hit the journalist Goran Naumovski of the web portal “Plusinfo” with a truncheon – inflicting a head injury that knocked him unconscious.  While the photojournalists Ognen Teofilovski from “Vest”, Nakje Batev from “Vecher” and Borche Popovski from “Sloboden pecat”, as well as Tome Georgiev from “Fokus”, were assaulted by police officer’s despite being properly marked as professional journalists.