“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 …
