Alerts | Verbal attack or intimidation by public (non online)

Death threats against Serbian editor after COVID-19 death report

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Two men broke into the house of Jeton Ismali, the editor of the Albanian language FOLonline news portal, and threatened to kill him and his family over an article his outlet published about the suspected death from coronavirus of two elderly brothers in their local community.

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