The number of prosecuted journalists due to their work
Status requiring significant improvement
Status requiring moderate improvement
Compliant status
Journalists continue to face strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs).
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) do not exist as a separate legal concept in the current Slovak legal framework – we thus monitor different forms of abuse of civil and criminal means to punish, silence or intimidate journalists for their work. The survey by the Investigative Centre of Ján Kuciak published in February 2023 showed that 2,74 % of Slovak journalists have experienced legal harassment/SLAPPs in the previous twelve months. According to the Media Pluralism Monitor 2023, the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic registered ten SLAPP cases against journalists.