SDS MP denies guilt in "radical Islamist" tweet case

Ljubljana, 3 October - Žan Mahnič, an MP for the opposition Democrats (SDS) who served as state secretary for national security at the prime minister's office under the previous government, rejected charges in a pre-trial hearing on Monday in a private law suit filed by humanitarian Faila Pašić over a tweet in which he called her a "radical Islamist", media report.