Journalists attacked in Slovakia since 1992
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Slovak authorities file criminal defamation charges against columnist Michal Havran
February 10, 2020 1:20 PM ET
Berlin, February 10, 2020 -- Slovak authorities should immediately drop criminal defamation and slander charges against journalist Michal Havran and stop using the country’s criminal code to prosecute journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Number of journalists killed falls sharply as reprisal murders hit record low
December 17, 2019 11:59 AM ET
As wars subsided and a record low number of journalists were murdered in reprisal for reporting, the total number of journalists killed because of their work fell sharply in 2019. A CPJ special report by Elana Beiser...
CPJ calls on Slovakia not to adopt press law amendment
March 25, 2019 1:24 PM ET
Berlin, March 25, 2019 -- Slovak lawmakers should not pass an amendment to the country's press law that would expand its right of reply mandate to include politicians and public officials, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Mission Journal: One year on, Ján Kuciak murder seen as turning point by Slovak press
February 28, 2019 4:52 PM ET
Black-and-white portraits of Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová, set amid unlit red candles, were the first things to greet me when I entered the building housing Aktuality, the news website where Kuciak, an investigative reporter, worked until his murder on February 21, 2018. One flight up is the newsroom...
CPJ and IPI urge Slovak officials to expedite Kuciak case
February 19, 2019 6:01 PM ET
Bratislava, February 19, 2019--The Committee to Protect Journalists and the International Press Institute (IPI) called on Slovak authorities to expedite charges against all parties allegedly involved in the murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak. A delegation from the two groups today met with Ministry of Interior officials and representatives...
Slovakia charges three people with murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak
September 28, 2018 12:15 PM ET
Berlin, September 28, 2018--Slovak police today charged three people with the murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová, according to news reports. The unnamed suspects were among eight people arrested in a raid yesterday, according to reports. The other five were released today, according to...
Slovak police seize Czech investigative reporter's phone
May 16, 2018 2:41 PM ET
Berlin, May 16, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Slovak authorities to respect the confidentiality of journalistic sources. Slovak police in Bratislava yesterday seized the mobile phone of Czech investigative reporter Pavla Holcova while questioning her for their investigation into the murder of her colleague, Slovak journalist...
Make solving journalist murders a priority, CPJ tells US Helsinki Commission
May 9, 2018 3:33 PM ET
"Being a reporter in much of the world is dangerous work. Being an investigative reporter can be deadly," CPJ Deputy Executive Director Robert Mahoney told the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, known as the Helsinki Commission, at a briefing in Washington, D.C. today....
After murders of Kuciak and Caruana Galizia, investigative journalists band together for justice
March 15, 2018 5:42 PM ET
The assassinations of Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta in October and of Ján Kuciak in Slovakia last month have elicited an outpouring of support from journalists determined to honor the memory of their colleagues by fighting back with the weapon they wield best: journalism....