Journalists in Slovenia are increasingly exposed to political and capital pressures, insults and constant discredits that the government encourages and creates instead of building a more tolerant social environment and providing more favorable conditions for media freedom and the work of journalists.

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Petra Lesjak Tušek at the protest against the new legal changes, Photo: Andrej Petelinšek-Večer

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