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 term at the time. However, the lawyers of the…
