{"id":18189,"date":"2020-03-19T15:37:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T13:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/?p=18189"},"modified":"2020-03-19T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T13:37:14","slug":"slavi-angelov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/slavi-angelov\/","title":{"rendered":"Brutal Assault on Bulgarian Journalist Slavi Angelov: Perpetrators Must be Identified and Punished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Association of European Journalists \u2013 Bulgaria condemns the brutal assault on Slavi Angelov, an investigative journalist and Editor-in-Chief of 168 chasa weekly. He was attacked in front of his house in central Sofia on Tuesday evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Angelov, the attackers were two. They beat him up with metal sticks while a third one was filming the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All the facts available at the current moment lead to the conclusion that the assault has been ordered and documented as an evidence to the initiator. The main version of the police also is that the accident is related to Angelov\u2019s job.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AEJ-Bulgaria calls for a swift and thorough investigation. The authorities must identify and bring to justice both the perpetrators and the one who have ordered the gruesome attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Physical attacks on journalists in Bulgaria are not that common but when they occur most of those cases remain unsolved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have already alerted our international partners and the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coe.int\/en\/web\/media-freedom\/the-platform\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Council of Europe\u2019s Platform for the Protection of Journalism and Safety of Journalists<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the accident, which comes as another proof of the dangers journalists face nowadays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The assault on Slavi Angelov is not only an attack on his physical safety but also an attack against press freedom in Bulgaria \u2013 a country which has steadily occupied the bottom position among all EU member states in the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/bulgaria\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reporters without Borders\u2019 World Press Freedom Index.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It marks a continuous trend of deterioration of press freedom in Bulgaria, where journalists are subjected to<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Bulgaria-in-2019-Another-Tough-Year-for-the-Free-Press.pdf\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">various forms of pressure and intimidation.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Association of European Journalists \u2013 Bulgaria condemns the brutal assault on Slavi Angelov, an investigative journalist and Editor-in-Chief of 168 chasa weekly. He was attacked in front of his house in central Sofia on Tuesday evening. According to Angelov, the attackers were two. They beat him up with metal sticks while a third one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,973,967],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-from-aej-bulgaria","category-media-news","category-positions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}