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DonateApril 12, 2000
President Rudolph Schuster
Sdesanikova Ul. 1
Bratislava, SLOVAKIA 81104
VIA FAX: 011-4217-544-30-683
Your Excellency,
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is writing to express its dismay over recent defamation charges brought against Vladimir Mohorita, a journalist with the Slovak weekly Zmena.
On March 16, Mohorita received a registered letter from the Bratislava 2 Regional Court informing him that unspecified, undated criminal charges had been filed against him. Mohorita received another registered letter two days later, explaining that the charges had in fact been filed two weeks earlier. The letter added that, having reached a decision on March 7, the court was sentencing him to four months in prison under Article 102 of the Slovak Penal Code for "publicly defaming the country and its officials."
Committee to Protect Journalists
Slovakia
2000
Attacks on the Press
| Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia
By Chrystyna Lapychak
Wars in Yugoslavia and Chechnya dominated regional and international headlines in 1999. The conflicts raised the journalists' death toll in the region and prompted crackdowns, as governments blocked access to war zones and engaged in propaganda campaigns.
| Slovakia
Slovak media function in an increasingly competitive market that has forced many newspapers and broadcasters out of business. Slovakia's economic difficulties have put pressure on the advertising market, which is dominated by national dailies and magazines. The editorial policies of most media outlets are largely independent of the government and individual political parties, although business interests have significant editorial influence.
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