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Slovenian Interior minister calls for criminal prosecution of journalists covering lockdown protest

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Slovene Interior Minister Aleš Hojs called for journalists and media professionals who reported from the scene of anti-lockdown protests to face criminal prosecution. Hojs said on Twitter that police should identify and then charge anyone who attended, took photographs or reported from the scene with violating lockdown measures. He then singled out the editor-in-chief of the left-leaning weekly newspaper Mladina as having attended.

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