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

Italy journalists face pressure over COVID-19 protest coverage in Florence

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Several journalists and media workers covering anti-curfew protests in Florence were subjected to insults and intimidation by protesters. Among those targeted were journalists from local Florence-based newspaper Corriere Fiorentino and its reporter Simone Innocenti.

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