Bulgaria: “The state of press freedom is just terrible”
By ECPMFTchavdar Nikolov was scrolling through his channel at Vbox – a Bulgarian video sharing portal – when his works started disappearing. Since September 2015, the 57-year-old cartoonist was contributing to the morning show of Nova TV, part of the second biggest media company in Bulgaria Nova Broadcasting Group. In that time he drew 90 cartoons of 15 seconds and all of them have been uploaded into the platform, also owned by Nova Broadcasting Group, part of the Swedish Modern Times Group
On April 13 Nikolov must have gone a bit too far.
Some background on the cartoon: For months now…