January 24, 2025 – Malta – Prominent Maltese businessman Yorgen Fenech—charged with complicity in the 2017 assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia—has been granted bail, […]
January 24, 2025 – Malta – Yorgen Fenech, a wealthy Maltese businessman accused of orchestrating the 2017 assassination of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, has been […]
January 24, 2025 – Belarus – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has filed a formal complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko […]
January 23, 2025 – Georgia – Veteran Georgian journalist and media manager Mzia Amaghlobeli, co-founder and director of the independent outlets Batumelebi and Netgazeti, was arrested […]
January 20, 2025 – Egypt/UK – Australian journalist Peter Greste began a 21-day hunger strike outside the UK Prime Minister’s office in London to demand the […]
January 20, 2025 – Italy/Iran – Italian war correspondent Cecilia Sala, 29, was arrested in Tehran on December 19, 2024, while reporting on assignment for Il […]
January 19, 2025 – Russia – In January 2025, Karelian journalist and poet Denis Pogrebnoy was fined 30,000 rubles (around €290) by the Petrozavodsk City Court […]
January 19, 2025 – Ukraine/Russia – In 2024, Russian forces escalated their assault on media freedom in Ukraine, killing 24 Ukrainian media workers and committing over […]
January 17, 2025 – Russia – Russian police detained multiple journalists in the town of Petushki, near Vladimir, as they attempted to attend the court hearing […]