Annual Report 2023: Defending Critical Voices under Threat

Recent: Journalism and Democracy

Press Freedom Advocates: Tsvetanka Ivanova

In this edition of Press Freedom Advocates, Media Defence speaks with Tsvetanka Ivanova, a media lawyer based in Sofia, about the state of press freedom in Bulgaria ahead of the

“When the legal process itself becomes the punishment”: Bojana Davitkovska on defending journalists in North Macedonia

Bojana Davitkovska has spent years defending journalists and media outlets in North Macedonia, working alongside Media Lawyer Filip Medarski, whose earlier work helped push the country toward decriminalising defamation and

Paris Court of Appeals reopens Ariane Lavrilleux’s case

The French investigative journalist has faced years of legal proceedings following the publication of the ‘Egypt Papers’, an investigation that exposed a covert French intelligence operation in Egypt and alleged

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