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Portrait of Sara Mendiola

Media Defence Mourns the Death of Sara Mendiola

Media Defence mourns the passing of Sara Mendiola Landeros, Executive Director of Propuesta Cívica, and one of Mexico's foremost legal

Partner Impact Report 2025: Supporting on the Ground Legal Defence for Journalists

Funded Partner ProgrammeImpact 2025 Stronger Together: Working with Funded Partners in 2025 Established in 2009 our Funded Partner programme supports

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