Bulgaria's state-run nuclear plant slams civil activist with SLAPP – Euractiv euractiv.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from euractiv.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the judicial harassment of two Bulgarian investigative journalists and calls on Bulgaria’s new government to pass legislation that protects the media against gag suits.
Just before Christmas, Sofia City Court ordered Stoyana Georgieva, editor of the independent news website Mediapool, and Boris Mitov, one of the former site’s reporters, to pay the exorbitant sum of 67,000 leva (34,000 euros) in damages for “defamatory allegations” in four articles in February 2018 about the court’s then president Svetlin Mihailov, who was running for another
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Bulgarian law regulating secret surveillance by the the police, prosecutors, and military and security agencies is of insufficient quality to protect individuals against violations of the right to privacy, and that the data gathered through secret surveillance operations "could be used for nefarious purposes" due to a lack of safeguards.
The Strasbourg Court Shattered Bulgarian Surveillance and Wiretapping Legislation - Novinite.com novinite.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from novinite.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.