Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova was found dead in a park in the town of Ruse on Saturday. She had suffered multiple blows to the head and suffocation. Her phone, car keys, glasses, and pieces of clothing were missing from the scene. Marinova had also been raped. Prior to her death, she had reported on corruption in the European Union regarding missing funds. There is suspicion that this could have upset officials and may have contributed to her demise. She was also a member of popular television station, TVN. Political officials stated that her death was not due to her involvement in reporting on the corruption of the EU. Marinova is yet another journalist who has been murdered in the EU in the last year. Most recently, an investigative journalist was murdered by a car-bomb and another having been shot in February of this year. Bulgaria is not an exceptionally free country with limited freedom of press. Historically, opponents of political leaders in Bulgaria and the surrounding areas have been censored or physically harmed.
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