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3 Jahre Haft für slowakischen Journalisten wegen Verleumdung

Read in English Das Internationale Presse Institut (IPI) verurteilte heute nachdrücklich eine dreijährige Gefängnisstrafe auf Bewährung, die über den slowakischen Journalisten Lukáš Milan wegen Verleumdung verhängt worden war. Das Urteil passt zu den jüngsten Entwicklungen in der Slowakei, die sich nach dem Mord an dem Enthüllungsjournalisten Ján Kuciak im Februar in einer politischen Krise befindet. […]

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Groups demand strong EU response to journalist murders

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined 16 other European and international press freedom groups in calling on the European Commission to ‘step up’ efforts to protect journalist safety following the murders of Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta and Ján Kuciak. Kuciak, an investigative journalist with the portal Aktuality.sk, was found shot dead at home […]

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IPI welcomes quick arrests following killing of Slovak journalist

Slovak police this week detained several suspects in relation to the gruesome murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée. Those detained include several Italian businessmen who were named in Kuciak’s posthumously published reporting as allegedly having links to the notorious ‘Ndrangheta mafia as well as to officials close to Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. […]

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Ján Kuciak: Telling the story that transformed Slovakia

The news came through in the morning of February 25, 2018. A young Slovak investigative journalist and his fiancée had been shot dead in their home. For Christoph Lehermayr, an Austrian investigative journalist working at the time in Vienna, the reaction was one of shock and disbelief. “I couldn’t believe what had happened. This wasn’t […]

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