Macedonia's former Interior Minister Lyubomir Mihaylovski-Dzhango has confirmed he will defend Macedonian with Bulgarian passport Spaska Mitrova in an upcoming custody trial.

Mitrova was released Thursday from the jail in Skopje where she served over two months of her controversial three-month sentence.

Mihaylovski, who served as interior minister in the cabinet of former prime minister Vlado Buchkovski, announced he was invited to be Mitrova's laywer a month ago.

"I met Spaska Mitrova and she offered me to represent her in court. This is the first time that she will use the services of a laywer after being forced so far to defend her rights on her own," Mihaylovski said.

Mitrova, whose case made headlines over the last few months and evoked parallels with the jailing of six Bulgarian nurses in Libya, was welcomed on Bulgarian soil Friday night by Bulgaria’s Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov.

Mitrova, who has a baby daughter, was sentenced to three months in jail because she failed to provide her former husband with a bed in her parents’ house where she lives so that he could come and stay there every weekend in order to see their child.

The young woman was jailed on July 30, and her term should have ended at the end of October.

She was released in advance for good behavior.

Mitrova became a Bulgarian citizen at the beginning of 2009, and according to many Bulgarian politicians and public figures such as MEP Evgeni Kirilov, it was exactly this fact that led to the excessive and unfounded punishment that she received, and to the brutality with which she was treated.

For example, she was dragged for her hair out of her house because she did not want to leave her child. She was also repeatedly abused verbally because she is a Bulgarian citizen by both her husband and Macedonian police and officials.

The Bulgarian authorities and public have protested repeatedly against Mitrova’s sentence and the way she has been treated. The case was also brought to the attention of the European Parliament.

A new court case will be started as Mitrova’s former husband is expected to dispute her custody of their baby daughter.

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