Reporters sans frontières - Sweden - 2004 Annual report Annual report Neo-nazi activists and criminal gangs continued to harass investigative journalists in 2003, though not as much as the previous year. Sweden very liberal laws include the right of journalists to information, which is written into the national constitution, and the protection of journalistic sources, which is recognised as an absolute right. The authorities are not allowed to formally investigate the origin of published material and journalists are legally obliged to respect a source's wish for anonymity. But after the controversial coverage of the enquiry into the 10 September 2003 murder of foreign minister Anna Lindh, calls were made to curb the media's right to be informed. The Swedish Association of Lawyers called for this right to be limited concerning material from police sources, so as to prevent leaks. Twelve MPs from three parties also tabled bills restricting the information civil servants could give the media, including proposals to bar information about ongoing criminal cases, allowing the authorities to seek the source of a journalist's information, legally investigate civil servants who leaked secret material and punishing media who paid for secret information.