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Anti-vaccination advocacy organization is led by controversial figureRTV Slovenia headquarters in Ljubljana. by Wikipedia user Mateus2019, .A group of protesters that deny the existence of COVID-19 and oppose epidemiological measures and vaccination have stormed the studio of Public Broadcaster Radio Television (RTV) Slovenia on Friday evening, demanding airtime to present their views.The incident took place around&nbsp; 8:30 pm on September 3, as anti-vaccination protesters entered the studio used for news production and started insulting the&nbsp; journalists.&nbsp; The police had to intervene to remove the intruders.Journalist Barbara Vidmajer shared a video showing the event and&nbsp; police intervention&nbsp; in a tweet which become viral.Vdor proticepilcev v dnevniški studio.— Barbara Vidmajer (@bvidmajer)Antivaxxer intrusion in the daily news studio. #AttackOnRTVThe group that invaded the Slovenian public broadcaster's studio has been protesting&nbsp; in front of the building for weeks. Before the incident, these protests were nonviolent, but they did include the heckling of the journalists who were passing by.TV anchor Tanja Staric N1 that they had been warning the authorities for months that the situation was becoming unbearable, but that no one had done anything until the incident.The police finally removed about 20 protesters, who were not wearing masks, bne Intellinews&nbsp; .RTV Slovenia journalists to authorities to protect them from further violence.The attackers call themselves the Movement of&nbsp; Aware Inhabitants of Slovenia or OPS. Their Facebook page is listed as a “local business” and has nearly 24 thousand fans and almost 30 thousand followers. In the about section of the page, they describe themselves as an “independent, determined and powerful civic organization” working on “program of national unity” based on “liberation, cleansing and rebirth of Slovenia!”in 2020. by Wikipedia user Hladnikm, .OPS president is Ladislav Troha, described as the “leader of the cult of coronavirus deniers”&nbsp;in published by&nbsp; 24ur.com the day after the incident.&nbsp; The profile lists a number of his attempts to draw public&nbsp; attention, including a holding a hunger strike for almost two months in 2014 in front of the government.In 2001 Troha claimed he was kidnaped for four months by three unknown persons. The subsequent investigation carried by Slovenian police could not confirm these claims and resulted in him being charged for filing a false police report. The court later released him due to lack of evidence.Previously, Troha served as an officer in the Slovenian Army, reaching the rank of major. Before his 2001 disappearance claim, he was discharged after publicly spreading false claims about other officers planting explosives for the purpose of political assassinations on behest of the then minister of defense, , in 1993.Janša—who currently&nbsp; holds the post of Slovenian prime minister—later and won the lawsuit of one million or about 5,000 dollars.Troha unsuccessfully ran for parliament in 2008 and for president in 2012.Open data presented by the independent project shows that 4,456 Slovenian citizens had died of COVID-19 by September 6, 2021.The tracker collects, analyses and publishes data on the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in order to give the public a better overview of the magnitude of the issue and a proper assessment of the risk.Current data on COVID-19 in Slovenia shows that unvaccinated patients make up the majority of confirmed new cases. by COVID-19 Tracker Slovenia, used with permission.The country has had about 270,000 confirmed cases out of 2 million inhabitants. About 43 percent of Slovenian citizens have been vaccinated, which has reduced the death rate in recent months.Vladimir Kesma Nešković, courtesy photo used with his permission.Software developer and activist Vladimir Kesma Nešković, a member of the COVID-19 Tracker Slovenia team, expressed concern in a statement to Global Voices:Slovenia is currently in the lower half of the of most vulnerable groups. So far the death rate had been low, but the number of new infection cases have been increasing rapidly in the recent days. One can expect that this would lead to overcrowding of the hospitals, which in turn would directly increase the death rate due to scarcity of medical care for all who need it.Read more Global Voices stories on the global impact of COVID-19This post is part of , a Global Voices project dedicated to protecting freedom of expression online.stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media committed to building community and defending human rights can positively influence how people experience events happening beyond their own communities and national borders.Please consider making a donation to help us continue this work.Global Voices is supported by the efforts of our volunteer contributors, foundations, donors and mission-related services. For more information please read our . Special thanks to our many .Please support our important work:This site is licensed as . Please read our to learn about freely redistributing our work

Anti-vaccination advocacy organization is led by controversial figureRTV Slovenia headquarters in Ljubljana. by Wikipedia user Mateus2019, .A group of protesters that deny the existence of COVID-19 and oppose epidemiological measures and vaccination have stormed the studio of Public Broadcaster Radio Television (RTV) Slovenia on Friday evening, demanding airtime to present their views.The incident took place around&nbsp; 8:30 pm on September 3, as anti-vaccination protesters entered the studio used for news production and started insulting the&nbsp; journalists.&nbsp; The police had to...

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