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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

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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
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'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