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Lawyer Impact Report 2025: A global network of over 300 lawyers defending journalists

Capacity BuildingStrengthening the network Supporting lawyers Part of Media Defence’s mission is to provide support to lawyers who represent journalists.

Group photo of participants to the European Litigation Surgery

Lawyers from Across Europe Gather in Budapest for Media Defence Litigation Surgery

On 9th and 10th June 2026, Media Defence brought together lawyers from across Europe for its latest Litigation Surgery, held

Group photo of the 2026 Latin America Litigation Surgery Cohort

Media Defence and OHCHR Convene  Lawyers In San Jose to Strengthen Press Freedom Defences in Latin America

Media Defence and OACNUDH Convene Lawyers in San Jose to Strengthen Press Freedom Defences in Latin America. From June 15-17,

Portrait of Sumayyah J. Mokku

From Nairobi to London: Media Defence Fellow Sumayyah J. Mokku on Defending Press Freedom in Kenya

Media Defence’s Fellowship Programme supports lawyers working on freedom of expression in deepening their skills, broadening their networks, and connecting

Budapest crowd

Hungary: When the GDPR Became a Gag 

How the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union turned a six-year thicket of data-protection cases into a paradigm shift for press freedom  To understand how

The Anti-Picket Protocol: Damián Loreti on How Argentina's Press Union is Fighting Back

When Argentine security forces fired a tear gas grenade at a photojournalist covering a Buenos Aires protest in March 2025,

Aimable Karasira Uzaramba

Rwandan Journalist Aimable Karasira Uzaramba Dies on Day of Scheduled Release from Prison

Media Defence is deeply concerned by the death of Rwandan YouTuber and former university lecturer Aimable Karasira Uzaramba, who died under suspicious circumstances on 7 May 2026 — the

Movement of journalists at the Planalto Palace, in Brasília - Pedro Ladeira - Aug. 19, 2020 / Folhapress

Brazil: The law has become a weapon against a free press

This is an English translation of an article published in Folha de S.Paulo on May 3, 2026, for World Press

Media Defence Annual Report 2025

Supporting Partners in Volatile Press Environments: Media Policy Institute, Kyrgyzstan

This interview is from our 2025 Annual Impact Report Press freedom in Kyrgyzstan has deteriorated sharply over the past two

Supporting Partners in Volatile Press Environments: In Conversation with Digital Rights Nepal

This interview is from our 2025 Annual Impact Report In 2025, Nepal’s democratic crisis unfolded both online and in the

Portrait of Dorian Matlija, Executive Director of Res Publica

Formal Rights, Weak Safeguards: Dorian Matlija on Press Freedom in Albania

Founded in 2010 to turn protest into lasting legal change, Res Publica has since become Albania’s main legal defender of