The Association of Journalists and Commentators expressed concern over “a renewed abuse of the wheels of the judiciary” after Bojan Požar, author and proprietor of the news portal Požareport, received a suspended three-month prison sentence for defamation and insult due to an article in which he alleged that Maribor Mayor Saša Arsenovič and his former aide Matjaž Štandeker had bribed bankers.
Požar announced he would appeal the ruling, handed by the Slovenj Gradec District Court earlier this week.
