Macedonia: The Law on Prohibition of Public Revelation of Illegally Recorded Audio-Visual Materials may restrict the Media Freedom1
Borce Manevski
In October 2015, the Law on the Prohibition of Owning, Editing, Publishing and the Usage of Materials, which come from Illegal Communications' Surveillance (Zakon za zabrana za poseduvanje, obrabotka, objavuvanje i raspolaganje so materijali koi proizleguvaat od nezakonsko sledenje na komunikaciite) – was proposed by two Members of the Parliament from the ruling majority and aims to prevent the media from publishing wiretapped conversations of highest politicians, which reveal their heavy criminal activities.
The country is in the middle of the deepest political crisis since its independence in 1991. For months, the political opposition has been revealing wiretapped phone…