Partners

Budapest crowd

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

Limpopo Police Officers

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

Black and white portrait of Charlene Nagae, co-founder of Tornavoz

Press Freedom Advocates: Tornavoz’s Charlene Nagae on Journalism, Lawsuits and Solidarity in Brazil

In this edition of Press Freedom Advocates, Media Defence’s Communications Officer, Anoushka Schellekens, speaks with Charlene Miwa Nagae, Co-founder of
pride Hungary

'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 Constitutional Court

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,

Ossigeno

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.

Photo: Journalists’ Union of Turkey, TGS

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

Nepal

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

Sergio Aguayo Quezada

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