FYROM/Macedonia: Journalists detained during March of Hope
by Philipp Filipovski and Michelle Trimborn
Around 30 to 50 journalists have been forced to stay in police stations for many hours after they were arrested because of illegally crossing the border between Greece and Macedonia/the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Many journalists reported that security forces were explicitly watching out for journalists.
Migrant men help a fellow migrant man holding a boy as they are stuck between Macedonian riot police officers and migrants during a clash near the border train station of Idomeni, northern Greece, as they wait to be allowed by the Macedonian police to cross the border from…
