Watch our Webinar: Legal Considerations for Environmental Journalists
Watch the recording below of our webinar in collaboration with Journalismfund Europe, where we discussed the risks faced by environmental journalists and explored ways to mitigate them with a legal expert from Media Defence. As global environmental disasters increasingly hammered home the realities of climate change, the need for in-depth reporting had never been greater. […]
Guardians of the Amazon: Abraji and FLIP’s Joint Report on Journalism in the Region
Our partners, the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) and the Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP) have joined forces to address the challenges facing journalism in the Amazon, one of the most difficult regions to cover due to its natural density and the intersection of legal and illegal economic interests. For this report, the two […]
Online threats, intimidation and judicial harassment against environmental journalist Alberto Castaño
Alberto Castaño is an environmental journalist supported by our partner Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP). FLIP is a non-governmental organisation that promotes press freedom in Colombia. It also oversees the rights of citizens to be informed. Since 1996, FLIP has assisted more than 2000 Colombian journalists at risk. As an environmental journalist working […]
César Estrada and the ongoing struggle of indigenous journalists against censorship
Award-winning journalist César Estrada’s ongoing legal battle against censorship recently began a new chapter. In May this year, the Peruvian Supreme Court rejected his writ of cassation against a decision of the lower courts to sentence him to 10 years in prison. His case is emblematic of the struggles many indigenous journalists face throughout Latin […]
Why Covering the Environment Means Risking Your Life In Many Parts of the World
By Antoine Char, September 2, 2021 Originally published by Les Cahiers du Journalisme and GIJN On 1 June 2015, Indian police burst into the office of Jagendra Singh and threw petrol over him. He died of his burns one week later. As for Sandeep Sharma, he died instantly. He was run over by a […]
Media Defence Supports Legal Defence of Cameroonian Journalist in Multiple Lawsuits Filed by International Timber Company
Media Defence is supporting Nestor Nga Etoga, an investigative journalist in Cameroon. An international timber company has filed multiple lawsuits against Mr Nga Etoga, after he published what he alleged was evidence of its various unlawful practices. Mr Nga Etoga, a freelance reporter, published his findings on an online news website in 2016. In response, […]
Media Defence Files Intervention at Warsaw Court in Defamation Case Brought by Municipality
Media Defence has filed an intervention before the Third Division of the Warsaw District Court. The case has been brought by the Podkowa Lesna municipality against an environmental organisation called the Association of Cultural and Landscape Heritage, known as “Dendropolis”. The case concerns a civil defamation lawsuit brought by the municipality. It is in response […]
Petition Filed at the UNWGAD on Behalf of Jailed Journalist and Activist Lê Đình Lượng
Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI, now Media Defence) has filed a Petition with the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) calling for the immediate release of Lê Đình Lượng, recently convicted and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Viet Nam. Mr Lượng, 52, is a citizen journalist and an environmental and political activist. […]
Media Defence Intervenes Before European Court in Important Environmental Journalism Case
Media Defence and ARTICLE 19 have filed an intervention before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case of Bryan and others v. Russia. This case concerns the events that followed the boarding of the ‘Arctic Sunrise,’ the Greenpeace vessel that was seized by the Russian authorities in September 2013, and the detention of the crew on […]