The Prime Minister called on his ministers to work on a solution in cooperation with journalists and their representative organizations, agreeing to establish a permanent system, with the suggestion that an example might be the establishment of a dedicated contact point within the State Police for the handling of threats against journalists, as mentioned in Council of Europe Recommendations, according to a release from the government press office.
As previously reported, the issue came to prominence - as it does sometimes - after a sluggish police response when a long-time harrasser of investigative journalism center Re:Baltica gained access to the editorial office with a funeral wreath. It was only several weeks later that the police took action, after Re:Baltica finally went public.
