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Media Defence Files 2 Amicus Briefs at the European Court of Human Rights addressing the dangers of SLAPPs

Media Defence has filed written submissions as a third-party intervener in two separate cases currently before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), each raising distinct but related questions about

Guatemalan Journalist José Rubén Zamora Released to House Arrest After More than Three Years in Arbitrary Detention 

Guatemalan investigative journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, founder of the now-defunct independent newspaper el Periódico, was released to house arrest on 12 February 2026 after spending 1295 days in pre-trial

Case Challenging Impunity in the Killing of Journalist Léo Veras Reaches the IACHR Six Years After His Death

On the sixth anniversary of the killing of Brazilian journalist Lourenço “Léo” Veras, the Institute for Environmental Law and Economics (Instituto de Derecho y Economía Ambiental – IDEA) and Media

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