A Slovenian journalist was allegedly threatened with death on Sunday 10 October by a prominent Ljubljana-based businessman after investigating his company, the journalist told the International Press Institute on Thursday. Jaka Elikan, a reporter for Slovene business daily Finance, had been conducting investigations into Electa, a company owned by Jure Jankovic, son of Ljubljana mayor Zoran […]

Superiors at a Ljubljana, Slovenia, district court have endangered journalists’ right to protect the confidentiality of their sources by ordering the checking of traffic-data of telephone calls made between judges and journalists, the Slovenian daily Dnevnik has reported. According to a 4 December article published in the newspaper and quoting anonymous sources at the district […]

Lawyers representing Slovene daily Dnevnik on Wednesday received notification of a Ljubljana Court of Appeal decision overturning a gag order imposed on the newspaper earlier this year. The gag order, implemented on 6 August, followed articles printed in Dnevnik in July suggesting an Italian businessman’s involvement in corruption. Lawyers representing the businessman claimed that the newspaper had damaged his […]

A Ljubljana District Court on 4 September rejected Slovene daily Dnevnik’s appeal against a temporary injunction that stops the paper reporting on an Italian businessman’s alleged involvement in a corruption scandal. The injunction, which carries fines of up to €500,000 for failure to comply, relates to articles printed in Dnevnik on 29 July in which […]