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On 20 October 2014, the High Court of Uganda ordered that the trial of Ronald Poteri, a police detective accused

  Former journalist of the Sowetan, Cecil Motsepe, wrote a series of articles in 2009 about the allegedly racist conduct

  The 4th of December 2014 was a defining moment in Zambian legal history. In a landmark judgment, High Court

  The first US-Africa summit was held in early August, focusing on trade and investment opportunities across the continent. While

On 26 March 2014 the Supreme Court gave a lengthy judgment in Kennedy v Charity Commission [2014] UKSC 20, running

  Internationally renowned journalist Khadija Ismayilova has complained to the European Court of Human Rights about the unwillingness of the

  German courts breached German newspaper Bild’s right to freedom of expression when they banned further publication of an article

We have previously looked at how criminal libel and national security laws are increasingly being used to silence journalists. The

The reporting of stories relating to national security has been a concern for governments around the world for many years,

The Media Legal Defence Initiative has filed a brief with the European Court of Human Rights asking it to respect

On 28 May, the Rwandan High Court acquitted radio presenter Epaphrodite Habarugira of charges of “minimising the genocide” and spreading

In its judgment of 28 November 2013 in the case of Österreichische Vereinigung zur Erhaltung, Stärkung und Schaffung eines wirtschaftlich