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Covid-19Verbal attack or intimidation by public (non online)Verbal, online or physical attack

Mexican newspaper Reforma threatened for coverage of president and his management of COVID-19

14.05.2020

Date:
14.05.2020
Number of cases:
1
Regions/Countries:
Mexico
Alert types:
Verbal, online or physical attack: Verbal attack or intimidation by public (non online)

Mexican newspaper Reforma released an audio recording in which a man who claims to be from an organized crime group threatened to “blow up” its newsroom if it did not stop criticizing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s management of the COVID-19 crisis

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