<nettime> Large-Scale Wire-Tapping in Macedonia

[Novica Nakov <nnovica@gmail.com>]

from:
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/eavesdropping-bombshell-explod
es-in-macedonia

"Top politicians, opposition leaders, NGO activists, journalists,
businessmen, top academics, religious leaders and members of the
judiciary have been subjected to widespread surveillance ordered by
Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and secret police chief Saso Mijalkov,
the opposition Social Democratic Party, SDSM, claimed on Monday."


According to historical data Yugoslav secret police spied on 14752
people during 40 years in Macedonia.

According to the opposition in the past 8 years more than 20000 were
warantlessly wiretapped.




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