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Great to have attended Trust Conference 2026 in London.
Thank you to @thomsonreuters for organising, and to everyone we connected with over the past two days #TC2026
🔗 Find out more about our work and get in touch with us: mediadefence.org
Today, 2 November, is the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. Media Defence works to challenge impunity in the courts. Read more about the cases mentioned and many others on our website, and support our work: mediadefence.org/news/filter…
16 lawyers from across sub-Saharan Africa joined our Litigation Surgery in Nairobi with @Kennedy_HRC and Vuka!, workshopping their cases on freedom of expression, assembly and association. Thank you to every participant for their openness and expertise 🙏
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As Brazil’s elections come to a close, our partner @Tornavoz recognises the journalists who kept the public informed. Tornavoz provides legal defence to journalists and communicators targeted over their work.
Read more at tornavoz.org
Bulgaria heads to the polls for its presidential election. Less than a month ago, parliament passed a new anti-SLAPP law. We spoke to media lawyer Tsvetanka Ivanova about what the law could mean for journalists and why the election will be an early test. bit.ly/487GzxI
In the first round of Brazil’s elections, @LatAmJournalism recorded 327 digital attacks per day on journalists. The result is a chilling effect: @TiagoRogero reports on a news site that stopped covering the elections after an intimidation campaign: ow.ly/vIkZ50ZZGjW
You're a journalist and you are suddenly faced with a lawsuit over something you published. What now?
Our CEO @cegaio answers that in a new masterclass for @gijn 👇
If you’re facing legal threats, Media Defence can help cover the legal fees or connect you with a lawyer.
🎥 In the latest #GIJNAcademy masterclass, @cegaio, lawyer and CEO of @mediadefence, shares practical advice for journalists facing legal threats. He says that journalists who receive a threatening letter or lawsuit notice must act immediately rather than ignore it.
He also explains that organizations like Media Defence exist to help, offering emergency grants, connecting journalists with trusted lawyers, and supporting appeals up to international courts when needed.
Watch the full video here ⬇️
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Courts across three continents have ruled internet shutdowns unlawful. The shutdowns continued anyway.
@MojirayoDR , @PrasanthTweets , @EmmanuelVP and @lawyerpants on what happens after the courts rule ↓
Watch the full discussion: mediadefence.org/news/webina…
SFLC.in has documented 50+ journalists detained in India while covering protests on 10–11 Oct, some while showing press credentials. Media Defence supports journalists facing legal threats. Read more: bit.ly/4yjvlkf
Reporting is not a crime, and journalists should not be detained for performing their duties. SFLC.in has recorded over 50 journalists who were detained while reporting on the ongoing protests.
The list of these journalists can be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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@SobhanaNair @dheerajmishra04 @hemantrajora_ @ShoaibDaniyal @sighyush @SravastiDasgup2 @Tamal0401 @nistula @PragyaLive
For World Mental Health Day, we’ve gathered resources for journalists.
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#Palestine🇵🇸: @AFP photographer Jaafar Ishtayeh was brutally attacked by Israeli settlers while reporting. We condemn the attack and the Israeli forces' complicity in allowing settlers to assault journos with impunity. @SNJ_national @SnjCgt @USJCFDT @SgjFo ifj.org//media-centre/news/d…
Four years after Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were killed, a prize in their names drew 900+ entries across Brazil.
@ARTIGO19 has gathered the 18 winning works in defence of the environment, Indigenous peoples and traditional communities here:
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Nueva edición de “Libertad de Prensa en el Foco”: el caso de Jineth Bedoya contra Colombia, un homenaje a Sara Mendiola y la entrevista con Mauricio Weibel sobre la Operación W. Lee y suscríbete: bit.ly/4j6QZVb
Our latest newsletter is out: Breaking Ground revisits Jineth Bedoya's landmark case against Colombia, we remember Sara Mendiola of Propuesta Cívica, and more.
Read and subscribe: bit.ly/4oBpzpt
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#Türkiye🇹🇷: X must not block access to the accounts of journalists and media organisations in Türkiye without a court order or an explicit, transparent and reviewable decision by an independent judicial authority. @efjeurope @TGS_org_tr ifj.org/media-centre/news/de…
#VietNam: Media Defence has filed an urgent appeal with the UNWGAD over the abduction of Norwegian citizen Nguyen Duc Thuan and Australian citizen Tran Hiep from Cambodia to Vietnam, where they now face terrorism charges.
Read more: mediadefence.org/news/media-…
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All available information indicates that they were abducted on Cambodian soil and forcibly taken across the border. The abduction of three men from a third country marks a serious escalation in Vietnam’s transnational repression of dissenters.
#TNR
#BringThuanHiepHome
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#VietNam: Media Defence has filed an urgent appeal with the UNWGAD over the abduction of Norwegian citizen Nguyen Duc Thuan and Australian citizen Tran Hiep from Cambodia to Vietnam, where they now face terrorism charges.
Read more: mediadefence.org/news/media-…
Jineth Bedoya won her case after two decades of fighting for justice. Yet winning is rarely where the work ends.
5 yrs on, Colombia has a law, a fund, a memory centre and a national system recording violence against women journalists.
Read more:
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