Worries about freedom of the press

WHEN Dunja Mijatovic intervenes it is normally in countries where journalists are in real trouble. So, the fact that the Freedom of the Media Representative of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe has written to the Slovenian foreign ministry demanding answers in two cases, which have come to her attention, is alarming. They both shine a spotlight on the nasty underbelly of Slovene political life.

The story begins during the general election campaign in 2011. In November Anuska Delic, a journalist for a left-leaning daily, Delo, wrote three stories in which she linked men associated with a neo-Nazi group called Blood and Honour with the then opposition Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) in the small town of Ziri. She also reported about an investigation of the ministry of defence into a small number of Blood and Honour men who were members of the armed forces. “Her articles sent shock waves...Continue reading