{"id":449463,"date":"2021-06-08T19:25:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T19:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=449463"},"modified":"2021-06-15T13:24:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T13:24:12","slug":"study-attacks-on-moldovan-journalists-in-2020-who-where-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/study-attacks-on-moldovan-journalists-in-2020-who-where-and-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Study\/\/ Attacks on Moldovan journalists in 2020 &#8211; who, where and why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>The number of attacks on Moldovan journalists suddenly increased in 2020. Mostly, legal and economic mechanisms were used by state officials, holding offices at central and local level, against media employees, in particular, filing accusations of defamation, slander and damage to reputation, a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/jfj.fund\/ru\/report-2020-3\/#mld\">study<\/a> conducted by the <strong>Foundation for International Investigation of Crime against Media <em>&#8220;Justice for Journalists&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> stated.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation monitors attacks on media employees on a daily basis, together with partners an experts from 12 countries, creating a <a href=\"https:\/\/jfj.fund\/risk-map\/\">Media Risk Map<\/a>, which covers the period from 2017 onwards. Each incident is being verified in three independent sources, belonging to one of the categories: physical attacks and threats to life, liberty, and health; attacks via judicial or economic means; and non-physical and\/or cyber attacks and threats.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">68 attacks<\/span> on journalists were <a href=\"http:\/\/api.md\/upload\/files\/API-Moldova_Report_2020_ROM_final.pdf\">committed<\/a> last year in Moldova, most of them happening during protests and important political events. According to the report, collaborators or offices of <span style=\"color: #993300;\">22 media institutions and media NGOs<\/span> were subjects to attacks or threats.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the most common forms of intimidation and persecution of media employees were non-physical attacks and\/or cyber attacks (including DDoS and hacker attacks), but also discrediting, spreading slander in relation to media portals or media employees, illegal obstruction of journalistic activity, harassment, intimidation, pressure, threats of violence, attacks on social networks (49 out of 68 cases). <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 38 out of 49 cases,<\/span> the source of these attacks was mainly state officials, politicians and public figures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>3 out of 5 cases of physical attacks on media employees and institutions were accompanied by threats to life, liberty and health of journalists, being conducted by law enforcement representatives, including those from the Transnistrian region.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, several cases of suing journalists and media portals were recorded, as well as inviting to testify as witnesses after investigations were published.<\/p>\n<p>The most important reasons for the journalists&#8217; working conditions aggravation in Moldova, as well as in the whole region, were voting new laws and regulations that limit the access of media employees to information and restrict their freedom of movement under the pretext of\u00a0 COVID-19 restrictions; civil resistance actions with the participation of a large number of people organized in connection with the tension of the political, economic and social situation; tightening the penalties for media collaboration with colleagues abroad and non-profit organizations; or the adoption by state authorities of a clearly hostile position towards the media institutions which are not controlled by them.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Thomas William| Unsplash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>The number of attacks on Moldovan journalists suddenly increased in 2020. Mostly, legal and economic mechanisms were used by state officials, holding offices at central and local level, against media employees, in particular, filing accusations of defamation, slander and damage to reputation, a recent study conducted by the Foundation for International Investigation of Crime against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":449464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,4],"tags":[1059,35,287,27,498,677,124,501],"class_list":["post-449463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-politics","category-society","tag-attacks","tag-important","tag-media","tag-moldova","tag-officials","tag-politicians","tag-report","tag-study"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>The number of attacks on Moldovan journalists suddenly increased in 2020. Mostly, legal and economic mechanisms were used by state officials, holding offices at central and local level, against media employees, in particular, filing accusations of defamation, slander and damage to reputation, a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/jfj.fund\/ru\/report-2020-3\/#mld\">study<\/a> conducted by the <strong>Foundation for International Investigation of Crime against Media <em>&#8220;Justice for Journalists&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> stated.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation monitors attacks on media employees on a daily basis, together with partners an experts from 12 countries, creating a <a href=\"https:\/\/jfj.fund\/risk-map\/\">Media Risk Map<\/a>, which covers the period from 2017 onwards. Each incident is being verified in three independent sources, belonging to one of the categories: physical attacks and threats to life, liberty, and health; attacks via judicial or economic means; and non-physical and\/or cyber attacks and threats.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">68 attacks<\/span> on journalists were <a href=\"http:\/\/api.md\/upload\/files\/API-Moldova_Report_2020_ROM_final.pdf\">committed<\/a> last year in Moldova, most of them happening during protests and important political events. According to the report, collaborators or offices of <span style=\"color: #993300;\">22 media institutions and media NGOs<\/span> were subjects to attacks or threats.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the most common forms of intimidation and persecution of media employees were non-physical attacks and\/or cyber attacks (including DDoS and hacker attacks), but also discrediting, spreading slander in relation to media portals or media employees, illegal obstruction of journalistic activity, harassment, intimidation, pressure, threats of violence, attacks on social networks (49 out of 68 cases). <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 38 out of 49 cases,<\/span> the source of these attacks was mainly state officials, politicians and public figures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>3 out of 5 cases of physical attacks on media employees and institutions were accompanied by threats to life, liberty and health of journalists, being conducted by law enforcement representatives, including those from the Transnistrian region.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, several cases of suing journalists and media portals were recorded, as well as inviting to testify as witnesses after investigations were published.<\/p>\n<p>The most important reasons for the journalists&#8217; working conditions aggravation in Moldova, as well as in the whole region, were voting new laws and regulations that limit the access of media employees to information and restrict their freedom of movement under the pretext of\u00a0 COVID-19 restrictions; civil resistance actions with the participation of a large number of people organized in connection with the tension of the political, economic and social situation; tightening the penalties for media collaboration with colleagues abroad and non-profit organizations; or the adoption by state authorities of a clearly hostile position towards the media institutions which are not controlled by them.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Thomas William| Unsplash<\/p>\n<div 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