Bulgaria: Alarming SLAPP cases endanger fragile media freedom

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the judicial harassment of two Bulgarian investigative journalists and calls on Bulgaria’s new government to pass legislation that protects the media against gag suits. Just before Christmas, Sofia City Court ordered Stoyana Georgieva, editor of the independent news website Mediapool, and Boris Mitov, one of the former site’s reporters, to pay the exorbitant sum of […]

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