The Chairman of the Ivan Mihailov Culture Club in Bitola, Ljupco Georgievski, has been summoned to appear at the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Bitola on Friday in his capacity as a suspect under Article 394-d of the Criminal Code.
The offence in question consists in "spreading by a computer system of racist and xenophobic written material, photo or other representation of an idea or theory helping, promoting or stimulating hatred, discrimination or violence, regardless against which person or group, based on sex, race, skin colour, class, membership in a marginalized group, ethnic background, language, nationality, social background, or religious belief". On conviction, it carries imprisonment of one to five years.
Georgievski himself has no further information about the reasons for being so suspected.
Back in May 2022, a month after the Ivan Mihailov Culture Club opened its centre in Bitola, The Left party wrote on Facebook that it had alerted the public prosecutor's office, blaming him Georgievski for "ridiculing the Macedonian people, inciting hatred, discord or intolerance on national, racist, religious and another discriminatory basis". In his capacity as Chairman of the Ivan Mihailov Culture Centre-Bitola Association, Georgievski "intentionally used the premises of the club to publish a large-size quotation from Vancho (Ivan) Mihailov using insulting language intended to provoke, deny and ridicule the Macedonian people," according to the nationalist party.
In their Facebook post, The Left accused him of a Facebook post of "discriminatory content" by which he "inflamed a feeling of hatred and intolerance, directly insulted and disparaged the Macedonian people and State by limiting the continuity of the Macedonia people to 1945 and ignoring its age-long existence before that."
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