Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:00:30 +0200https://english.radio.cz/czech-republic-criticized-fining-journalist-who-protected-source-8587552© 2026 Radio Prague International A year ago, Sabina Slonková acquired undercover footage of the president’s chief of staff, Jiří Weigl, meeting lobbyist Miroslav Šlouf in a downtown Prague hotel. Ms Slonková was recently fined 20,000 crowns by a Prague court for posting the footage on the news website Aktuálně while failing to disclose who had given her the tape. The fine that Ms Slonková paid for protecting her source was apparently the first of its kind since the Velvet Revolution, and on Tuesday the International Press Institute voiced its concern. Earlier, I spoke to director David Dadge in Vienna: encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/4f5197446b1f6808606b2a0aab5e5a67.png?timestamp=1583150525 https://english.radio.cz/czech-republic-criticized-fining-journalist-who-protected-source-8587552 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9