Hundreds of reporters gathered in Zagreb on Wednesday to protest a bill seeking to criminalize the leaking of information from police investigations. Hrvoje Zovko, the head of Croatia’s Association of ...

Union leader says PM's promise to amend proposed law, criminalising leaks from investigations, are a 'cheap political trick' and will not end 'the harassment of our colleagues and the intimidation of ...

Several hundred Croatian journalists have rallied in the capital, Zagreb, against what they call the curbing of press freedoms and pressure on journalists. The rally on March 2 was organized by the ...

Longtime reporter and union leader Hrvoje Zovko says Croatia's national broadcaster HRT has dismissed him again because his outspokenness on censorship at the organisation angered the management.

ZAGREB, Croatia – Several hundred Croatian journalists protested Saturday, March 2 in the capital Zagreb against a wave of lawsuits filed against them, which they argue amounts to an attempt to censor ...

Hundreds of Croatian journalists have marched through central Zagreb to decry what they describe as efforts to stifle media freedom. They say there are over 1,100 lawsuits filed against journalists in ...

Journalists in Croatia are facing a wave of attacks and violent threats from supporters of the far-right party that has just won power in a new coalition government. The Homeland Movement party is ...

The protest was organised by the National Association of Journalists (HND), which says that the bill is an attempt to cover up corruption cases. The Croatian media landscape is traditionally dominated ...

Despite protests, Croatian lawmakers have passed a controversial law against whistleblowers, making the work of journalists more difficult. Other changes from Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic also give ...

“We are talking about a culture of suing journalists and media and a systematic aggression in order to intimidate journalists and force them into self-censorship,” he said. [Shutterstock/PanuShot] ...