To­day, in the le­git­i­mate pur­suit of a sto­ry that has both lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al in­ter­est, one of our jour­nal­ists was sub­ject­ed to a range of at­tacks via so­cial me­dia in­clud­ing death threats. This is un­ac­cept­able and we have tak­en all mea­sures with­in our con­trol to en­sure her safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty.

At Guardian Me­dia Ltd. we de­nounce in­tim­i­da­tion of jour­nal­ists in any form. Bal­anced re­port­ing which presents all per­spec­tives is fun­da­men­tal to the de­mo­c­ra­t­ic process and we will con­tin­ue to cham­pi­on vig­or­ous­ly the free­dom of the press.

The use of ag­gres­sion on so­cial me­dia to in­tim­i­date can have ad­verse phys­i­cal and psy­cho­log­i­cal ef­fects on peo­ple. As a re­spon­si­ble me­dia house, we en­cour­age oth­ers to stand up against this type of be­hav­iour as we can all make a dif­fer­ence in ad­dress­ing this glob­al chal­lenge posed by the per­va­sive na­ture of so­cial me­dia.