Overview

• Journalists in Spain have experienced escalating harassment that now extends from online insults and threats to physical intimidation by ultranationalist groups.
• Falange Española de las JONS claimed credit for a banner reading “Blanqueadores de la violencia inmigrante” placed at La Verdad’s Murcia headquarters.
• Vox proposed expelling around eight million undocumented immigrants and their descendants before retracting the plan without condemning the xenophobic riots in Torre Pacheco.
• Social media platforms continue to serve as impunity havens for coordinated hate campaigns against reporters.
• Authorities have yet to enact effective protections for journalists despite commitments by news outlets to maintain independent, fact-based reporting.