navigate to an unauthorized gambling website. While DNS blocking can be bypassed, according to ICANN it can damage internet security. Moreover, while at the moment the infrastructure is used only for unauthorized gambling website, it could be potentially used for other purposes. Charges, attacks and threats against journalists In 2002 Silvia Vranceanu of the opposition newspaper Evenimentul Zilei was intimidated after writing articles about the Social Democratic Party's regional leaders. Investigative journalist Iosif Costinas disappeared on 8 June 2002 and was found dead on 21 March 2003. On 3 December 2003 Ino Ardelean of Evenimentul Zilei was beaten unconscious in Timișoara. On 6 November 2004 journalist Sebastian Oancea of the Ziarul de Vrancea was harassed in Focșani by three different political and official authorities. On 26 January 2005 the chief of the Romanian Intelligence Service Radu Timofte admitted the telephone tapping of two Romanian journalists working for foreign media. In February 2006 Sebastian Oancea of Ziua and Marian Garleanu of România liberă'' faced charges for possessing and divulging contents of a CD relating to Romanian army action in Iraq and Afghanistan. On 10 March 2010 Romanian Member of the European Parliament Gigi Becali insulted ZIUA Veche journalist Cornelia Popescu after she asked him about contradictions in his declarations of financial interests. In January 2012 journalists from various media outlets were assaulted while covering the anti-government protests in Bucharest. On 16 May 2012 "Dan Buruca, an investigative reporter at Realitatea TV, was beaten by two individuals in the lobby of his apartment building". On 10 November 2014, Stefan Mako, an investigative journalist of Casa Jurnalistului, was detained by police after filming an arrest. On 1 February 2017 German freelance cameraman Christian Gesellmann was violently arrested by police in Bucharest while covering an anti-government demonstration. See also Romania Transparency of media ownership in Romania References External links BBC NEWS country profile: Romania Romania Romania