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MLDI has led a coalition of 69 news organisations in urging the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human

  For the first time, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights determined that a criminal conviction for the crime of

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, a tribunal set up under the UN’s Human Rights Council, found that Le

The Media Legal Defence Initiative has launched a fundraising campaign to support its bid to free Ethiopian journalists, Eskinder Nega

While it’s rare to be prosecuted for it in western democracies, Peter Noorlander, MLDI’s CEO, explains how authoritarian governments frequently

The High Court is hearing the judicial review application of David Miranda in relation to his detention earlier this year

  Agnès Uwimana and Saidati Mukakibibi wrote for a local Rwandan newspaper, Umurabyo. Some of their articles displeased the Rwandan

Two Ethiopian journalists imprisoned under Ethiopia’s anti-terror laws have appealed to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights arguing

Criminal libel laws date back to the middle ages but are in current use around the world. In many countries,

Khadija Ismayilova, an independent investigative journalist based in Baku and recipient of the 2012 Courage in Journalism Award, has asked

  In August last year, Burkinabe newspaper L’Ouragan reported allegations of corruption and abuse of power at the office of

Two years after Zambia’s President Sata – nicknamed King Cobra because of his combative political style – was elected with