In Romania, EU data protection law used to try to muzzle Rise Project
January 16, 2019 12:36 PM ET
Finding a suitcase full of documents is every journalist's dream. But for the investigative outlet Rise Project, it quickly turned into a legal nightmare after Romanian authorities filed a complaint under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ordering...
Bulgarian TV host Viktoria Marinova raped and killed
October 7, 2018 1:00 PM ET
Berlin, October 7, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Bulgarian authorities to conduct a rigorous, thorough investigation into the killing of Viktoria Marinova, presenter and administrative director for local television channel TVN. Marinova, 30, was found dead...
Bulgarian police detain two investigative reporters
September 14, 2018 2:05 PM ET
Bulgarian police on September 13, 2018 detained Attila Biro, editor of the Romanian investigative site Rise Project, and Dimitar Stoyanov, from Bivol, a Bulgarian investigative news website, according to reports. The investigative journalists were detained near Radomir, a town...