The banner was displayed outside the football stadium and signed by far-right groups. Berizzi reported it on Twitter. The parliamentarian Fiano was also insulted. Yet again far-right groups have directed a threat at Paolo Berizzi, the journalist of La Repubblica who lives with police protection (read here). Fifteen days after the threatening sign was hung […]
15 more fact-checked threats – Marilù is a reporter at high risk, RWB says – In Belgium a new NGO follows on the footsteps of Ossigeno – More legal help for those sued = Legal help: An Oxygen bonus for those sued = In Belgium, Xpress follows in the footsteps of Ossigeno = Ossigeno has […]
Between February 21st and March 15th 2019 in Calabria, Lombardy, Veneto, Sicily. Read below the names of the reporters targeted and the details of each episode. “Oxygen for Information” maintains that the episodes described below represent unjustifiable violations of freedom of expression and of the press. These 15 journalists and media operators directly affected were […]
“Okkio al Kranio” (look out for your skull) was written on a sign signed by the Militia group. The journalist of La Repubblica has been under police guard since February 2019. On the 7th March 2019, in Milan, a poster containing threats against the journalist of La Repubblica, Paolo Berizzi, was put up on the […]
In Zingonia, in the province of Bergamo, the correspondent Vittorio Brumotti was documenting the degrading scene. The police intervened. On March 3rd 2019, some people threw stones and other objects at the Striscia la Notizia correspondent, Vittorio Brumotti, and his team. It happened in the Municipality of Ciserano, in the province of Bergamo, in the […]
A statement by the head of the European desk of RSF urges the intervention of the Provincial Committee for Public Order and Security On the 14th March 2019 Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) urged the Italian authorities to provide a higher level of protection to the journalist Marilù Mastrogiovanni (read here) confirming a measure anticipated by […]
To cover the expenses of the lawyers who assist with free voluntary services (pro bono) or at special conditions the reporters subject to vexatious lawsuits. Oxygen for Information has set up a bonus in favour of reporters sued vexatiously in order to extend the coverage of its Free Legal Aid Office to those reporters sued […]
The target was Monica Andolfatto of Il Gazzettino for her articles. The plan came to light in February 2019 from the accounts of the anti-camorra investigation “At Least”. In 2009, several members of organized crime wanted to intimidate, with gunshots the journalist Monica Andolfatto of the newspaper Gazzettino di Venezia to block her accurate job […]
In Belgium “Xpress” was born, a new association of journalists with offices in Brussels, Liege and Antwerp. It intends to support journalists who, because of their work, suffer threats, intimidation and spurious lawsuits. It also proposes to defend journalists’ sources and informants, who suffer similar attacks. The declared purpose is: to help every journalist, photojournalist, […]
The man accused of the Italian photojournalist’s murder told the judges in Pavia that he was only to monitor the area and raise the alarm. This report by Giacomo Bertoni was prepared by Ossigeno for Information in collaboration with La Provincia Pavese, National Union of Italian Reporters, the Lombardy Order of Journalists in order to […]