FOLLOWING revelations that the Military Defence Intelligence (VOS), the counterintelligence arm of the Defence Ministry, has been wiretapping journalists, media experts have stressed that eavesdropping on journalists or their contacts is unacceptable in a democracy.

“Every such case of ‘weird’ wiretapping, mainly that of journalists, is a threat to democracy in a country,” the head of the International Press Institute’s (IPI) Slovak branch, Pavol Múdry, told The Slovak Spectator. “Wiretapping or monitoring of journalists is aimed at threatening these journalists and their colleagues and getting at sources.”

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