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Missed our latest webinar?
The recording of our session is now available to stream.
Moderated by Media Defence’s Wiebke Hangst, the webinar featured Duy (Dan) Hoang, Tsema Ede, Furkat Tishaev, and Carlos Domínguez Hernández.
📺 Watch it here: bit.ly/47Qhk2C
Thank you to all who joined our #IPIWorldCongress panel about the future of universal human rights in a changing global order.
We’re also proud to have participated in UNESCO's new report on SLAPPs, launched during the event. Read the full report here: bit.ly/4hHAnRc
There's still time to register for our webinar about impunity for crimes against journalists and what human rights bodies can do to reduce it. Sign up today: https://bit.ly/47PNAUy
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85% of journalist killings remain unsolved, according to @UNESCO. What role can regional courts & UN mechanisms play in changing that?
Join @mediadefence.bsky.social on Nov 3 for a global webinar tackling impunity for crimes against journalists.
🔗 Register: https://twp.ai/9PWcBe
We are at #IPIWoCo25! If you are here too come and say hello at our booth in room 1A, or join us for our panel today at 5pm: Defending Press Freedom in the New World Order
📍Maria Theresia Room
Le Nouvel Obs aborde le fonds « Ripostes » dans cet article et interroge François Bonnet, président du FPL sur l’offensive contre les journalistes et les médias indépendants : « Les procès se multiplient car la presse produit de plus en plus d’enquêtes […] C’est une bataille à mener. »
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Hi Philip, you may want to read this op-ed from our client Tsi Conrad:
www.ft.com/content/7e91...
Over 4 years after the UNWGAD found his detention to be arbitrary, journalist Tsi Conrad continues to serve 14yrs.
Media Defence represented Conrad at the UNWGAD: mediadefence.org/news/un-body...
Hi Howard, this may be of interest to you. Thanks
bsky.app/profile/medi...
Ils veulent nous faire taire ? Le FPL et Media Defence créent le Fonds Ripostes
Par @fondspresselibre.bsky.social
💥 Avec le fonds « Ripostes », contre-attaquons.
Avec vous et @mediadefence.bsky.social, on change de logique. Et on prépare la contre-attaque juridique.
⚖️ Nouvel objectif : 200.000 € avant le 30 octobre !
Ils veulent nous faire taire ? Qu’ils essayent.
➡️ fondspresselibre.org/soutenir
📢 Media Defence has intervened at the ECtHR in a landmark case challenging Georgia’s ‘Foreign Influence’ law - a measure that labels NGOs and media as serving “foreign powers” and imposes intrusive oversight, chilling independent journalism.
Read more here: www.mediadefence.org/news/media-d...
Attending #FIFAfrica25 too?
Join or upcoming panel:
🎤 Surveillance Tech & the State: Legal Resistance to Digital Authoritarianism in Africa
📅 Fri, 26 Sept | 10:15–11:45
📍 Omatako 1
We’ll also have a booth – come chat with us!
Are you at #FIFAfrica25? Want to learn more about how we defend digital rights and press freedom? Our colleagues are on the ground and would love to connect!
💬 Come find us at our booth today and tomorrow - or drop us a DM to arrange a time to talk!
Our Fundraising Officer, Nefeli Custer, is at #UNCOVERED and #IMEdD this week in Athens! 📢
If you’re also attending and would like to learn more about our work defending press freedom, feel free to send us a DM to connect.
On the #DayofDemocracy, we’re reminded that there’s no democracy without media freedom. States are using the law to silence journalists - here are two recent cases where we push back:
📄 Atresmedia v. Spain: bit.ly/464rGft
📄 IACHR observations: bit.ly/4n3NOwn
Lawyers in Asia Pacific can still apply for our next Litigation Surgery!
✏️Gain skills, test legal strategies, network and get expert feedback on real cases.
✅ Travel & accommodation covered
✅ Tickets to attend #GIJC2025
🗓️ Apply by 26 Sept
👉 bit.ly/4g4Ldjo
Resuelto el enigma de Tenório Jr., el pianista brasileño asesinado por la dictadura argentina y desaparecido durante casi medio siglo. Por Fernando Navarro en @elpais.com
elpais.com/cultura/2025...
Women journalists are increasingly facing disproportionate and specific threats in sub-Saharan Africa, exacerbated by developments in tech.
@rfkhumanrights.bsky.social recent report looks at how strategic litigation could improve accountability and protection. 👇
rfkhumanrights.org/report/gbv-a...
The abrupt #USAID cuts is causing independent #media to disappear. Of the 800 billion euros that the #EuropeanUnion wants to spend on defence, 150 million should go to independent media to combat Russian #disinformation. ➡️Interview with @ruthkronenburg.bsky.social in
@ftm.eu: ow.ly/s1PN50WIGzA
🧵 Big things ahead at #GIJC25!
A major keynote will explore the future of global investigative journalism, followed by an all-Asia panel with leading editors and reporters from the region…
Não há palavras suficientes para expressar o horror do assassinato de 5 jornalistas da @aljazeera.com por Israel no domingo. Mas tentamos.
O @intercept.com.br apela à mídia e ao gov do @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social para que ponham fim à sua cumplicidade. www.intercept.com.br/2025/08/11/i...
🎥 All our on-demand webinars & panel discussions are now in one place.
From SLAPPs to cross-border repression, explore the legal issues shaping press freedom – and how lawyers & journalists are fighting back.
🔗 www.mediadefence.org/webinars-eve...
#PressFreedom #MediaLaw #SLAPPs
In a welcome step for transparency, #Nigeria’s Supreme Court has ruled that the Freedom of Information Act applies to all levels of government - not just federal institutions. The judgment closes a long-disputed gap in access to information.
📖 Read more: www.mediadefence.org/news/supreme...
📢 We're hiring! Media Defence is looking for a part-time Communications Assistant - an exciting early-career opportunity for someone passionate about human rights & digital design.
🔹 Hybrid – London
🔹 £28,000 – £31,000 (FTE)
🔹 Deadline: 29 August 2025
www.mediadefence.org/news/were-hi...
🚨 Journalist Delfina Silvano faced 12 years in prison for posting a Facebook video criticising police violence.
In a landmark decision, Angola’s Court of Appeal has dismissed the ‘rebellion’ case against her, ending a three-year ordeal.
Read about the case and our intervention 👉 bit.ly/3Uy52oY
certa feita Bolsonaro chamou repórteres de urubus. Na natureza, o urubu faz algo essencial: limpá-la. Ele não produz a carniça. Mas quando a carniça aparece, o urubu vai lá cumprir seu humilde papel no equilíbrio ambiental. Hoje, por exemplo, é um dia de muita carniça aparecendo. Então viva o urubu
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Los periodistas que participamos en la #AlianzaParaguay esperamos que las continuas investigaciones sirvan tanto de disuasión como de homenaje, no solo a Coronel, sino a los muchos reporteros que han arriesgado y perdido la vida en busca de la verdad.
[Junto a @forbidden-stories.bsky.social ]
A force of nature...incredible.
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