Focus, 29 August 2010
Public figures send appeal to Bulgarian institutions for state protection of Bulgarian Miroslav Rizinskihttp://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n229197Sofia. A group of Bulgarian public figures in the fields of science, culture and business have sent an appeal to Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, National Assembly Chairperson Tsetska Tsacheva, Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov, as well as to the media, calling for strong and firm state and diplomatic protection of Bulgarian national Miroslav Rizinski, who is servicing ‘an unfair, politically-motivated sentence over a framed-up accusation in the Republic of Macedonia’.
The appeal states that for six months the Macedonian Ministry of Justice has been protracting Miroslav Rizinski’s transfer to Bulgaria on purpose, as a result of which he has already serviced more than half of his effective three-year sentence.
Miroslav Rizinski is one of the founders of the Bulgarian Culture Club-Skopje.
The terror exerted on Miroslav Rizinski by Macedonian authorities is one of the most emblematic cases of violation of human rights and humiliation of the dignity of Bulgarians in the Republic of Macedonia, the letter reads.