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Surveillance and Privacy

Surveillance, Sanctions, and Silence: Fico’s Crackdown on Civil Society Begins

The Slovak government under Prime Minister Robert Fico is advancing legislation that would reclassify critical civil society organisations as lobbying entities—subjecting them to invasive disclosure, surveillance, and the threat of dissolution. The proposal, widely referred to as the “Russian...