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The Next Rule of Law Report: More Action, Less Reaction

24/04/2025

OBCT joins civil society, human rights, journalist and media support organisations call on the European Commission to strengthen the rule of law dialogue, improve the impact of the Rule of Law Report’s recommendations and take decisive action against systematic human rights violations in EU Member State

Greece: Investigative media win latest victory in spyware SLAPP ruling

22/04/2025

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFFR) welcomes the Athens court's dismissal of vexatious lawsuits against Greek journalists reporting on the Prime Minister's nephew’s alleged spyware links

Free expression organisations in solidarity with the award-winning artist and human rights defender Badiucao

11/04/2025

More than 40 organisations from around the world stand in solidarity with the award-winning Chinese-Australian political cartoonist, artist and human rights defender Badiucao as he faces legal harassment in relation to his protest art

Greece: Total impunity persists on fourth anniversary of Giorgos Karaivaz murder

09/04/2025

The undersigned international media freedom and journalist organisations today mark the fourth anniversary of the killing of Greek crime reporter Giorgos Karaivaz in April 2021 with a renewed call for justice and an end to ongoing impunity, which continues to cast a dark shadow over the Greek media and press freedom landscape

Serbia: a press freedom crisis

04/04/2025

From April 7 to 9, MFRR conducts a visit to the country amid a rapidly worsening media freedom crisis.
This collection of articles in Italian, English and Serbian by OBCT explains what is happening and why.

Serbia: MFRR media freedom mission to visit Belgrade and Novi Sad

28/03/2025

The partners organisation of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) will conduct a mission to Serbia between 7-9 April to meet with journalists, media stakeholders and law enforcement authorities amidst a rapidly worsening media freedom crisis.

Serbia: Spyware attacks on BIRN journalists further deepen press freedom crisis

28/03/2025

Further alarm about the deepening press freedom crisis: revelations showing evidence of the abuse of advanced Pegasus spyware

Turkey: MFRR partners call for an end to crackdown on journalists covering political protests

28/03/2025

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partner organisations call for an immediate end to the crackdown against media after documenting widespread attacks , detentions, and censorship measures against journalists following the formal charging of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu with corruption on March 23, 2025.

Liberties Report 2025: Democratic Decline Deepens

20/03/2025

The Rule of Law Report by the Civil Liberties Union for Europe highlights a serious deterioration in the rule of law across Europe in 2024. The report ranks Italy alongside Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, and Slovakia among the countries facing the most critical issues

Source: CILD - Coalizione Italiana Diritti Civili

Romania: Answers needed over surveillance of investigative journalist

20/03/2025

Disturbing revelations about the physical surveillance and wiretapping of Victor Ilie, Romanian investigative journalist, by the Romanian National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA).