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Ilan Sor vs Inconvenient Journalists - Hate Speech or Right to Opinion?

30 July 2018
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Late last week, Ilan Sor, Mayor of Orhei and leader of the political party ‘Şor’, posted a video message on Facebook, insulting and threatening the inconvenient journalists, saying he would settle accounts with them after coming in power.

How can this speech be characterized, what consequences can it have and what should be done to prevent such situations from becoming common? These questions, as well as others, were addressed on the Media Azi show by moderator Nadine Gogu and her guest Cornelia Cozonac, President of the Center for Investigative Journalism.

The investigative journalist also referred to possible reasons that generated the attack by the politician, the subject being analysed also from the point of view of guaranteeing the right to freedom of expression.

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“Media Azi” broadcast is weekly produced by the Independent Journalism Center. It is intended to disclose the problems faced at present by the journalists of the domestic media and to identify solutions to hem. The broadcast may be viewed on the websites www.moldova-azi.md, www.media-azi.md and mediacritica.md, as well as on the Youtube channel of the Independent Journalism Center.
The broadcast was produced with the financial support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, provided by the means of the Embassy of Sweden in Chisinau.