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Covering COVID-19 in Lombardy, Italy is 'like visiting hell'

Stefania Battistini, a reporter for Italian public broadcaster RAI, speaks with CPJ's Attila Mong about covering the COVID-19 outbreak in northern Italy. Battistini, who previously covered the civil war in Syria, shares advice for how journalists can stay safe, and speaks about how news organizations can responsibly cover the pandemic. CPJ is conducting a series of Q&As with journalists on the front lines of covering the pandemic. (Photo courtesy Stafania Battistini)

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Soldiers are seen in Manila, the Philippines, on March 15, 2020. The country's state of emergency includes a regulation imposing criminal penalties for spreading ‘false news’ about the coronavirus pandemic. (AP/Aaron Favila)
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Philippines COVID-19 state of emergency includes prison time for spreading ‘false news’
Security forces are seen in Sulaimaniya, Iraqi Kurdistan, on March 14. 2020. Unidentified individuals recently tortured and robbed journalist Adnan Rashidi in Iraqi Kurdistan. (Reuters/Ako Rasheed)
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is seen in Brasilia on March 20, 2020. Bolsonaro recently passed a provisional regulation restricting access to public records. (Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino)
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RAI journalist Stefania Battistini reporting on the coronavirus outbreak in Lombardy, northern Italy. (Photo courtesy Stafania Battistini)
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Government Technology Agency staff demonstrate Singapore's new contact-tracing smartphone app called TraceTogether, as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus on March 20, 2020. Bill Marczak, an expert in cellphone surveillance technology, told CPJ about the implications for journalists as governments ramp up their capacity to monitor citizens in a time of crisis. (AFP/Catherine Lai)
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Independent Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Mukhtarli speaks in Baku, Azerbaijan ,,on Sunday, March 2, 2014. Mukhtarli spoke to CPJ after his release from prison in Azerbaijan on March 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Aziz Karimov)
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Carlos Choc, a journalist for Prensa Comunitaria, was forced into hiding because of legal harassment and anonymous threats over his reporting in Guatemala's Izabal region. (Nelton Rivera/Prensa Comunitaria)
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Flowers cover the coffin of Mexican journalist Jorge Celestino Ruiz Vazquez, who was killed in Veracruz in August. Ruiz is one of at least five journalists murdered in retaliation for their work in Mexico in 2019. (Reuters/Oscar Martinez)
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Journalists and press freedom supporters stage a silent march to police headquarters to denounce treatment of the media during protests over a proposed extradition bill, in Hong Kong, on July 14, 2019. (Reuters/Tyrone Siu)
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Soldiers are seen in Manila, the Philippines, on March 15, 2020. The country's state of emergency includes a regulation imposing criminal penalties for spreading ‘false news’ about the coronavirus pandemic. (AP/Aaron Favila)
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Philippines COVID-19 state of emergency includes prison time for spreading ‘false news’
Guatemalan soldiers fly the national flag at Constitution Square in Guatemala City, in September 2019. With a new president in office, the country has the opportunity to change the media environment for the better. (AP/Oliver de Ros)
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Carlos Choc, a journalist for Prensa Comunitaria, was forced into hiding because of legal harassment and anonymous threats over his reporting in Guatemala's Izabal region. (Nelton Rivera/Prensa Comunitaria)
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CPJ calls on Canadian police to allow journalists to freely cover matters of public interest

CPJ writes to the commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to express concern at the treatment of journalists covering protests against the construction of a gas pipeline through Wet’suwet’en territory, and to urge that the RCMP allow them to do their job and report freely on matters of public interest.

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