Hungary: When the GDPR Became a Gag
How the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union turned a six-year thicket of data-protection cases into a paradigm shift for press freedom To understand how
Supporting Partners in Volatile Press Environments: Media Policy Institute, Kyrgyzstan
This interview is from our 2025 Annual Impact Report Press freedom in Kyrgyzstan has deteriorated sharply over the past two
Supporting Partners in Volatile Press Environments: In Conversation with Digital Rights Nepal
This interview is from our 2025 Annual Impact Report In 2025, Nepal’s democratic crisis unfolded both online and in the
Protection Order Against South African Journalist Thomo Nkgadima Set Aside: The Campaign for Free Expression Warns of Rising Misuse of Harassment Laws
Media Defence and the Campaign for Free Expression (CFE), welcome the decision of the Praktiseer Magistrates’ Court in Limpopo to
Press Freedom Advocates: Tornavoz’s Charlene Nagae on Journalism, Lawsuits and Solidarity in Brazil
'The Real Danger is if we Let Fear Win': Hungary’s Pride Ban and the Shrinking Space for Dissent
Update: The article below the line was written before the Pride march on 28 June. The first few paragraphs have
Stronger Together: Working with Funded Partners in 2024
Established in 2009 our Funded Partner programme supports local legal centres worldwide that focus on the defence of journalists. We
Colombia's Constitutional Court overturns the blocking by a government agency against a journalist on X
This article was kindly written for Media Defence by Laura Urrego, Project Coordinator at El Veinte. On 16 August 2023,
Over 7,000 Threats to Journalists in Less than Two Decades: Focus on Italy with Ossigeno per l’Informazione
We recently interviewed our longstanding partner, Ossigeno per l’Informazione (Ossigeno) to discuss the current situation for press freedom in Italy.
Yet another tool of repression: Turkey’s looming “foreign agent” law targets civil society and free expression
Article written by Veysel Ok, leading lawyer for freedom of speech and media and co-Director of our partner MLSA. Veysel
Year in Review: Our Partnership with Digital Rights Nepal
Media Defence funds partner organisations as part of our global efforts to strengthen legal protection of journalists. This aims to
Judicial Harassment In Latin America: The Phenomenon Of Silencing Without Killing
This article was kindly written for us by our partner Propuesta Cívica, in Mexico. Leer en español “I sued the