site.btaActivist Ljupcho Georgievski Calls for Constitutional Guarantees for Bulgarians’ Rights in North Macedonia
Ljupcho Georgievski, the leader of a disbanded cultural centre in Bitola, North Macedonia, called for constitutional guarantees for the rights of Bulgarians in that country. Georgievski, who recently received a one-year suspended sentence from a court in Bitola for inciting ethnic hatred, talked with Bulgarian President Rumen Radev in Sofia on Tuesday.
The guest insisted that Bulgarians in North Macedonia should be inscribed in the country’s Constitution, because, as he put it, “some are sued, others are beaten.” He vowed that the Bulgarian community will keep struggling, and their path will take them to the European Court of Human Rights. “Europe is governed by human rights, but in the Republic of North Macedonia the rights of Bulgarians are nil,” Georgievski said.
On June 12, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry said in a position paper that it considers the guilty verdict against Ljupcho Georgievski to be "totally unacceptable". A court in Bitola had handed a one-year suspended sentence with a two-year probation period to Georgievski on charges of inciting xenophobia, racism, and ethnic hatred by posting quotes from the controversial historical figure Ivan Mihailov on the club’s Facebook page. Politicians in Bulgaria slammed the court ruling and expressed support for Georgievski.
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