Supreme Court annuls conviction over article about Maribor mayor

Ljubljana, 7 March - The Supreme Court has annulled a three-month prison sentence for defamation that Bojan Požar, author and proprietor of the news portal Požareport, received in 2020 due to an article in which he alleged that the mayor of Maribor and an aide of his had bribed bankers, Požareport says on Tuesday. The case will now go to retrial.