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The landmark trial of tycoon Yorgen Fenech begins seven years after his arrest for ordering the assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

The French Justice Ministry has called for our 2021 investigation into France’s complicity in crimes committed by the Egyptian dictatorship to be “unpublished”.

Press freedom organizations say the lengthy sentences demanded for Toplum TV journalists are designed to stifle independent media exposing high-level corruption.

Home to a proliferation of mega-projects by major oil and gas companies, it is also the scene of a conflict that has already claimed more than 6,000 lives and displaced over a million people, as the Mozambican state battles insurgents from the Islamic State-affiliated Al-Shabab. It is the fifth-poorest country in the world.

United Group’s founder and former CEO launched a legal battle in London to block BC Partners from selling the company’s media division, warning the €30 million deal could threaten Serbia’s last independent news outlets.

The questioning of an investigative reporter in Suva arises as the Pacific nation deals with an increase in drug trafficking and considers declaring a state of emergency.

Police in the Maldives raided the offices of a local news outlet on Monday night, seizing computers and barring its top editors from leaving the country after the publication broadcast a video in which a woman alleged she had a sexual relationship with the nation’s president.

The Cabinet Office will "be looking into" allegations that a prominent think tank paid for an investigation into journalists reporting on its funding, Liz Kendall has said.

A Hong Kong court on Monday sentenced Jimmy Lai, a prominent critic of Beijing whose pro-democracy newspaper closed in 2021 following police raids and arrests, to 20 years in prison under the city’s national security law.

The pro-democracy media tycoon faces a potential life sentence after being found guilty of collaborating with foreign forces and publishing seditious material. Rights groups described the ruling as a "sham conviction" and a warning to journalists globally.

As clashes intensified on the border with Thailand, Cambodian authorities increased their crackdown on journalists and online activists covering the conflict and expressing their views.

Amid relentless violence and atrocities by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which have placed civilians in grave danger, journalists face a double threat: struggling to survive while being directly targeted for their reporting.

A Kyrgyz court has labeled three independent news outlets as "extremist" organizations and banned their publications, marking the latest escalation in a crackdown on media outlets investigating corruption and criticizing the government.

In a marble-lined courtroom at the Palace of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal, attorneys, executives, and judges convened on Thursday to address a corporate dispute that many believe could have sweeping implications for democracy nearly 1,500 kilometres away.

Ethiopian security forces have detained at least six journalists and media workers since early August, Human Rights Watch said in a report Monday, as press freedom groups warn of a shrinking space for independent reporting ahead of the country’s 2026 elections.

Warring factions in Yemen have turned the country into one of the most dangerous places in the Middle East for journalists, detaining, torturing, and disappearing media workers in a campaign that has silenced reporting and gutted press freedom.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has dealt with nine months of mass protests against corruption and authoritarianism, with demonstrators sometimes clashing with riot police and violent pro-government thugs.

Kyrgyzstan’s new media law grants extensive control to the government, sparking concerns about censorship and reducing space for independent journalism.

Foreign embassies and media advocates condemned the sentencing of Mzia Amaghlobeli after a Georgian court jailed the veteran journalist.

Three female journalists from Azerbaijan’s Abzas Media report being mistreated in prison after initiating a hunger strike in solidarity with their jailed director, emphasizing the increasing repression of independent media in the country.

The Federal authorities in Switzerland are investigating whether a journalist has breached the nation’s stringent banking secrecy regulations.

Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court upheld prison sentences for two journalists accused of inciting mass unrest. This move was condemned by international rights groups as a blatant attack on press freedom.

The Associated Press filed a lawsuit against three Trump administration officials on Friday after the organization’s journalists were prohibited from Mar-a-Lago, Air Force One, and even the White House for declining to call the Gulf of Mexico the ’Gulf of America.’

Media freedom advocates have condemned the guilty verdict handed down by a Hong Kong court to two reporters who now face up to two years in prison for articles criticizing the government.