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Hate and violence

Car bomb and hate campaign mark disturbing evolution in climate for media

Published on 21 October 2011Read

New threats

Draft laws mooted on defamation and phone-tapping. Journalist confidentiality menaced

Published on 27 January 2011Read

Concerns about criminal code reform and electronic surveillance

Reporters Without Borders is worried by a bill adopted by the Bulgarian cabinet on 20 October that would amend the criminal code section dealing (...)

Published on 2 November 2010 Read

Attempt by mayor of southeastern town to intimidate freelance journalist

Reporters Without Borders condemns the harassment of freelance journalist Atanas Tchobanov by the mayor of the southeastern town of Carevo. Town (...)

Published on 21 May 2010 Read

Broadcast licence blackmail and disturbing increase in violence

Reporters Without Borders is disturbed by renewed cases of threats and physical violence against Bulgarian journalists in the past few days. An (...)

Published on 12 February 2010 Read

Weekly’s survival threatened by disproportionate fine

Reporters Without Borders condemns the fine of 28,000 levas (14,000 euros) which the weekly Videlina (www.videlinabg.com) has been ordered to pay (...)

Published on 8 July 2009 Read

Security agency closes corruption whistle-blower website

Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrest of journalist Yorgo Petsas, the administrator of the Frognews (http://www.frognews.bg) website, by (...)

Published on 15 September 2008 Read

Writer who covered organised crime gunned down

Reporters Without Borders condemns yesterday’s murder of writer and columnist Georgi Stoev, who wrote about Bulgaria’s criminal underworld. Stoev (...)

Published on 8 April 2008 Read

Police who allegedly beat news photographer to go unpunished

Reporters Without Borders today said it was “shocked” by interior minister Rumen Petkov’s announcement yesterday that no police officers will be (...)

Published on 29 May 2007 Read

Acid threat against journalist

Reporters Without Borders said it was shocked to learn that two men walked up to journalist Maria Nikolayeva’s office in the weekly Politika on 9 (...)

Published on 23 February 2007 Read

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Sweden - 18 May 2012

Three journalists convicted for researching availability of illegal firearms

Turkey - 12 May 2012

Two Turkish journalists released but more than 37 Syrian journalists still held

United Kingdom - 11 May 2012

Open letter to Members of Parliament on Internet surveillance

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He is the editor of Erk, the last opposition newspaper in Uzbekistan until it was banned by the authorities in 1993, and he was jailed on 18 August 1999 in the wave of repression after the failed assassination attempt on President Islam Karimov in Tashkent on 16 February 1999.

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