met at 18:00 at the Mother Teresa Memorial House, and then proceeded to march along the main arteries of the capital Skopje, blocking all traffic, until they reached one of the state institutions (Parliament, High Court, Ministry of the Interior), where they peacefully sat down, chanted and held minutes of silence out of respect for the murdered young man. Reactions Macedonian Twitter users rallied around the hashtags #Daniel, #Martin and #protestiram after the young man’s death, tweeting updates. In the 2015 Macedonian protests, opposition leader Zoran Zaev accused PM Nikola Gruevski and other officials of attempting to cover up the murder of Martin Neškovski, revealing taped phone conversations. The allegations were denied by Gruevski, accusing the opposition of tampering with the tapes. Legal proceedings After the murder, Igor Spasov reportedly turned himself in and charges were filed against him. During the trial, a small group of people protested before the court, led by Neškovski’s brother, Aleksandar. Igor Spasov was convicted of the murder and on 1 January 2012, he was found guilty and sentenced to 14 years in the Idrizovo prison. He was later given a suspended sentence temporarily for health reasons, which he used to flee from prison in 2019. An international arrest warrant was issued due to his escape. In 2021, Spasov was arrested in the Mladost district of the capital of Bulgaria over a domestic violence report by the Bulgarian police, where he was residing. The Bulgarian authorities discovered that he was wanted by Interpol and later extradited him to North Macedonia, where he was returned to the Idrizovo prison to serve the rest of his sentence. Aftermath The European Court of Human Rights stated that the Republic of Macedonia conducted an efficient investigation in the case of Martin Neškovski. Martin's father died by suicide nearly a year after the murder. See also List of protests in the 21st century List of cases of police brutality 2015 Macedonian protests 2016 Macedonian protests 2017 storming of Macedonian Parliament 2022 North Macedonia protests References External links Marching Against Police Brutality in Macedonia | The Stream – Al Jazeera Blog about the case Blog about the case v2 Criminal charge against Igor Spasov (in Macedonian) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofiRmk9Ul7w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWXVRs77y2o Modern history of North Macedonia Human rights abuses in North Macedonia Protests 2011 protests Police brutality in Europe Police brutality in the 2010s Protests against police brutality Politics of North Macedonia Murder in