ARGIA and Hala Bedi have called for support from the two main journalists' organizations in Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa for the threats that two journalists have received these days in Vitoria-Gasteiz by the police.

In the first case, the Local Police tried to prevent the journalist from receiving a graphic testimony of the police operation related to eviction, while in the second case the Ertzaintza took off his mobile phone while recording mobilizations against the distortion of the feminist occupied Talka area. The two journalists were threatened by the police with “legal measures”, according to the same source.

KEE and EKE have explained that they already have in their hands the audiovisual material that the two media have broadcast. In this regard, they have "strongly denounced" these threats and assured that it is "an act contrary to the right to inform".

The associations have recalled that, despite being in a state of alarm in the Spanish state, journalists can work "freely" and can "move without limits". They stress that this guarantees the right of citizenship to be “informed”.

They have also condemned any acts of the authorities and security forces aimed at the "pre-censorship" of the media. And they have asked the institutions to guarantee the "public function" of journalists, that society be informed "with true, proven and good source data".