World Report 2009: Croatia
22 January 2009
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Two recently proposed legislative changes will mean a step backward for press freedom in Croatia ahead of a ‘super election’ year, say MFRR partner organisations.
Politicians, public figures and corporations have filed over 1,100 lawsuits against journalists with the intention of intimidating them into self-censorship.
The brutal assault on Croatian investigative journalist Dušan Miljuš, nearly a decade ago, remains unsolved and the civil rights group pursuing it, the Partnership for Social Development, is concerned that trying to reopen this attempted murder case could be a provocation that would further endanger the journalist.