He worked for the daily Delo and the Austrian press agency APA, as well as being the editor of the fortnightly Naši razgledi in the 1980s and 1990s.
[1] In 1956, Fras graduated from comparative literature at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana .
A year later, he became a permanent correspondent for the Human Rights newspapers, then Delo and Borbe in Vienna.
From 1970 to 1974 he was the first permanent correspondent for Delo and Borbo from Bonn in the Federal Republic of Germany.
He was one of 571 Petition signatures against censorship and political pressures on journalists in Slovenia.