Lorena Bogza

Affiliated media: TV channel PRO TV Chisinau, Journalist

Incident date: March 15, 2022

Attack type:

• Defamation, spreading libel about a media worker or media outlet

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Ion Chicu's Facebook page

Location: Moldova, Chisinau

Additional information:

On a Facebook page, former Moldovan Prime Minister Ion Chicu attacked the journalist Lorena Bogza and the TV channels Jurnal TV and PRO TV Chisinau, which he called «media dumpsters whose role is exclusively to serve this government (supported by the same decision-making centers as they are)», «media extremists», «media brothels where open calls are made to attack part of our territory — Transnistria, thus entering into a war?».