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Violation of Media Freedom

Sweden | 2017-03-15 | Discredit, Defamation

Far right blogger discredits state journalist reporting on refugees

15 March, 2017 - Stina Blomgren, a journalist for state broadcaster SVT, was the victim of defamatory accusations by popular Swedish-Russian far right blogger Egor Putilov on his blog.

In the latest of a series of articles on his blog, Putilov alleged that Blomgren, a migration correspondent for SVT, had lied about the risks to Syrian migrants trying to reach Sweden and faked reports.

Putilov claims to have visited Egypt and disproved claims made by Blomgren in her reporting on his blog. The blog post follows an article written by Blomgren which was published in August.

Putilov was previously a staff member with the Sweden Democrats party in parliament, but was discredited and sacked after revelations about articles he had authored under fake names in various newspapers, as reported by Newsweek and TheLocal.se

Blomgren has not publicly commented on the post.

Date of incident: 2017-03-15 (No date was specified. This is the date of the first publication here.)

Type of incident

Verbal attack

Discredit

Legal incident

Defamation

Source of incident

Private individual(s)

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Who was attacked

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Type of journalist or media actor:

Media owner/broadcaster

Gender

Woman

Employment status

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Specific topic

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Location

EU Member States → Sweden → Stockholm County → Stockholms kommun

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Additional Information

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