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The concept of press freedom is a universal ideal that governs the rights of journalists and other people in the media to carry out their duties without fear of censorship and persecution.
While that s a good thing, it s not necessarily implemented equally throughout the world. Some have it better, some have it worse. And some just don t have it at all.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF), an international NGO with consultative status at the United Nations, has released their 2021 World Press Freedom Index, an annual ranking of press freedom spanning 180 countries across the world.
Slovenia Times
21. April, 2021
Paris – Slovenia has lost four spots to rank 36th among 180 countries in the 2021 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), with the report warning of the “dangerous path for press freedom” in Slovenia.
The report finds that in Slovenia problems for press freedom continue despite pressure from international NGOs for improvements. “Defamation is still criminalised and well-known politicians continue to subject media outlets to intimidatory lawsuits and often slanderous verbal attacks.”
According to the RSF, these tendencies became even more accentuated when Janez Janša became prime minister in March 2020. “After a smear campaign against freelance journalist (and RSF correspondent) Blaž Zgaga, who was investigating the government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis, other critical journalists were attacked on social media and in pro-government media funded by oligarchs who support Hungarian Pr