Country | MK |
Name and Surname | [:en]Goran N; Ognen T; Nakje B; Borce P; Tome G[:] |
Gender | Male |
Date | 13/04/2016 |
City / Location | [:en]Skopje[:] |
Type of incident | Actual attacks on journalists |
By whom | by policeman |
Type of media | print online |
Media name | [:en]Plusinfo; Vest; Vecer; Sloboden pecat; Fokus[:] |
Legal closure | Perpatrator is convicted |
Judiciary status | [:en]Ongoing[:] |
Was journalist`s association informed | Yes |
What was journalists' association reaction | [:en]Public reaction/activity[:] |
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.