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Draft laws mooted on defamation and phone-tapping. Journalist confidentiality menaced

Published on 27 January 2011Read

Concerns about criminal code reform and electronic surveillance

Published on 2 November 2010Read

Attempt by mayor of southeastern town to intimidate freelance journalist

Reporters Without Borders condemns the harassment of freelance journalist Atanas Tchobanov by the mayor of the southeastern town of Carevo. Town (...)

Published on 21 May 2010 Read

Broadcast licence blackmail and disturbing increase in violence

Reporters Without Borders is disturbed by renewed cases of threats and physical violence against Bulgarian journalists in the past few days. An (...)

Published on 12 February 2010 Read

Weekly’s survival threatened by disproportionate fine

Reporters Without Borders condemns the fine of 28,000 levas (14,000 euros) which the weekly Videlina (www.videlinabg.com) has been ordered to pay (...)

Published on 8 July 2009 Read

Security agency closes corruption whistle-blower website

Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrest of journalist Yorgo Petsas, the administrator of the Frognews (http://www.frognews.bg) website, by (...)

Published on 15 September 2008 Read

Writer who covered organised crime gunned down

Reporters Without Borders condemns yesterday’s murder of writer and columnist Georgi Stoev, who wrote about Bulgaria’s criminal underworld. Stoev (...)

Published on 8 April 2008 Read

Police who allegedly beat news photographer to go unpunished

Reporters Without Borders today said it was “shocked” by interior minister Rumen Petkov’s announcement yesterday that no police officers will be (...)

Published on 29 May 2007 Read

Acid threat against journalist

Reporters Without Borders said it was shocked to learn that two men walked up to journalist Maria Nikolayeva’s office in the weekly Politika on 9 (...)

Published on 23 February 2007 Read

Investigators follow professional lead after bomb rips apart journalist’s home

Reporters Without Borders said it was shocked by the violence of an attack on a journalist investigating criminal activity whose Sofia apartment (...)

Published on 7 April 2006 Read

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Bulgaria - 10 August 2011

Internet agency retreats on filtering, but does not give up

Bulgaria - 8 August 2011

Heavy fines for two independent newspapers

Bulgaria - 3 August 2011

Nakhchivan authorities continue to harass IRFS correspondent

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