site.btaNext Hearing in Case against Bulgarian Culture Club Chair Lyupcho Georgievski to Take Place on October 9

With the questioning of prosecution witnesses, the case against the chairman of the now-deleted association Ivan Mihailov Bulgarian Cultural Centre in Bitola Lyupcho Georgievski began on Friday in the Republic of North Macedonia. Georgievski's lawyer Nasser Raufi said that the charges in this case are for hate speech and for spreading xenophobia and racism through posts on the association's Facebook page. Among the prosecution's witnesses was Lambe Alabakovski, who was convicted for burning of the Cultural Centre door in Bitola, but will be questioned at the next hearing.