As we have already reported, the National Assembly’s Commission of Inquiry, which is supposed to investigate suspicions of illegal party funding, questioned the former Editor of the weekly Demokracija (Democracy) and former Director of the Nova obzorja (New Horizons) publishing house, Jože Biščak, on Tuesday, who repeatedly stressed that Demokracija is not a party weekly. …
Member of the European Parliament, Dr Milan Zver, President of the Association of Journalists and Publicists, Dr Matevž Tomšič, and President of the Slovenian Association of Patriotic Journalists, Jože Biščak, have decided to inform the Council of Europe and the journalists’ associations of the Council of Europe’s online platform for the promotion of the protection …
“Media freedom and pluralism in the country have not improved since 2021,” the State Department’s report states, among other things, in the European Commission’s Rule of Law Report published in July 2022. The US State Department’s 2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, which also includes Slovenia, states, among other things, that media freedom in …
Freedom Of The Media: A Journalist Was Sentenced For Satire Read More »
You will probably agree that trust is sometimes naïve, but nevertheless a beautiful virtue. This is not a scam. It is therefore paradoxical that trust is a prerequisite for deception. I am not just talking about Ponzi schemes or selling miracle cures, I am also talking about elections. The tactic of the left is to …
“We believe that the Commission of Inquiry is not only designed to intimidate media critical of the authorities, but also to destroy them. We ask you: is this media freedom?” wrote Jože Biščak and Vinko Vasle in a new letter to Věra Jourová, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Values. Former director of Nova …
“It is, however, worrying that AKOS, as a state body that is part of the executive branch of government, has taken on the role of prosecutor and judge and ordered the media outlet to withdraw part of a private TV programme. Let’s call it what it is: a typical example of censorship,” wrote Jože Biščak, President …
“This is censorship (prohibition of publishing or confiscation of a publication by the authorities) in the original sense of the word. It is scandalous that the Agency for Communication Networks and Services of the Republic of Slovenia (Agencija za komunikacijska omrežja in storitve Republike Slovenije – AKOS), a state body of the executive branch of …
Jože Biščak, former editor-in-chief of the magazine Demokracija and former director of Nova obzorja publishing house, who together with his external colleague Aleksandar Škorc, was convicted in the first instance at the beginning of the week for insulting the human dignity of illegal migrants, sent a letter to the Judicial Council of the Republic of …
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 …
“We must ask ourselves, has any NATO country ever threatened Russia and encroached on its territory? Never. NATO was founded in the late 1940s, this international security organisation served a single purpose – to defend the Member States. It has never unprovokedly encroached on foreign territory,” Demokracija editor Jože Biščak told Polish national television TVP. Polish …
The Prosecutor’s Office is going after the right-wing media outlets ahead of the April election, with the intention of intimidation and silencing. One of the targets of this attack is also the Demokracija magazine (Democracy). However, this is probably just the beginning. District State Prosecutor Alenka Jesenko has even decided to attack satire, which is …
“Brussels is already experimenting with Hungary. With its stupid demands and false accusations against the government of Viktor Orban, it is experimenting with where it can go and how Hungary will react. As Hungarians are smart and normal people, I am convinced that Orban’s conservative Fidesz will get a new mandate to form a government …
