“Thank you for caring about the free media space, which is the cornerstone of democracy,” Zala Klopčič wrote at the launch of a petition against the new media law, adopted by the government on the 31st of December 2024. This law threatens to severely restrict freedom of speech and media independence, and to lead to …
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This week has brought a new milestone in Slovenian parliamentarianism. At a meeting of the Committee on Justice of the National Assembly, coalition MPs voted to silence the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) MP, Zvone Černač. They were very bothered by his criticism of the judiciary, which (according to their political folklore) …
The Council for the Protection of Freedom of Speech (Svet za zaščito svobode govora), established within the Assembly for the Republic (Zbor za republiko – Zzr), has set itself the task of working to ensure that everyone can publicly express their opinions, views and ideas in line with their worldview, without fear of being persecuted …
“Biščak was sentenced to prison for publishing a satirical article about illegal immigration. There have always been people in history who persecuted dissenters and wanted to silence them, but there have also been people in history who resisted this and defended freedom of expression. Now we have a historic duty to fight back,” a journalist from …
The hearing in the Škorc commentary (gloss) case concluded at the Ljubljana District Court (Slovenia). The former editor-in-chief of Demokracija Jože Biščak and the former external collaborator of Demokracija, Aleksander Škorc, were sentenced to suspended sentences at first instance for satirical writing. The ruling is not yet final, as an appeal has been announced. Aleksandar …
Dear Věra Jourová, Vice-President of the European Commission and European Commissioner for Values and Transparency, you recently mentioned Slovenia again in an online interview for the Presseclub Concordia, saying that critical journalists are allegedly intimidated. As reported by the 24ur portal (HERE), you also said: “When the media are in trouble, our democracies are also …
