When apartheid South Africa used banning orders and house arrest to silence dissent, it didn’t only restrict political speech, it fractured lives, families, careers and…
Grantee stories
Highlighted stories from across our programmes
Two SRT grantee partners were represented at a recent roundtable with former US President Barack Obama on the future of democracy in Central Europe and…
In a landmark ruling, the High Court of Saint Lucia has struck down sections 132 and 133 of the Criminal Code, colonial-era laws that criminalised…
For over 30 years, the Organization for Aid to Refugees (OPU) has supported refugees and migrants in the Czech Republic. It is the country’s oldest…
In February 2025, SRT grantee partner Direkt36, a Hungarian investigative journalism organisation, released “The Dynasty” (“A dinasztia”) – a documentary scrutinising the business…
Veysel Ok, Co-Director and media freedoms lawyer at Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA), and Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, Director of Advocacy at Bahrain Institute for…
On 23rd March 2020, a separated Afghan family represented by Trust grantee International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) was granted an appeal by the Administrative Court…
Four young men in Egypt have escaped the death penalty for crimes allegedly committed when they were minors. Three of the men, who were all…
On 25th March, the UK Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision that the UK Government had acted unlawfully in providing or agreeing to provide…
On Tuesday, 10th March, Gibril Massaquoi, a Sierra Leonean national, was arrested in Tampere, Finland, by the Finnish police who suspect that he committed war…
In February 2020, SRT grantee Reprieve helped to secure the release of Evance, the 143rd person to have been released from death row in Malawi,…
SRT grantee the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) has won in the large media category of the global data journalism award, the Sigma…
The Court of Appeal of Belize delivered a judgment on 30th December 2019 denying the Belize Government’s appeal of a 2016 ruling that decriminalised adult…
The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland has confirmed having opened a formal criminal investigation into Chris Huber, a Swiss businessman active in the…
Trust grantee Foundation for Freedom of the Press (FLIP), based in Bogota, Colombia, has been recognised with the prestigious Journalist of the Year prize at…