Grantee News Direkt36 journalist Szabolcs Panyi has been charged with espionage in Hungary following his reporting on alleged links between senior officials and Russia,…
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Grantee news Bellingcat has published an investigation documenting how Russia’s war has devastated civilian life in Ukraine, verifying over 2,500 cases of civilian harm,…
Media Defence and Azerbaijani investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova secured a landmark ruling for press freedom at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The…
Grantee News MSF is one of over 30 NGOs banned by Israel from operating inside Gaza and the West Bank. This follows a threat to withhold registration…
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22nd November 2017: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague today sentenced former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic to life…
10th November 2017: The European Court of Human Rights has determined that the Hungarian authorities violated the fundamental human rights of a Roma man by…
In a landmark judgment on 13th October, the UK Court of Appeal has found that ‘separate but equal’ treatment based on gender at a school…
Last week the Polish president, Andrezej Duda, signed into law a reform that allows the government to create a ‘National Institute of Freedom’ and a…
A group of seven unlawfully detained torture victims, supported by SRT grantee Medical Justice, has successfully challenged the government’s redefinition of torture in immigration detention…
Geneva, 25th September 2017: Former Syrian Vice President Rifaat Al-Assad is being investigated for war crimes by the Swiss authorities, following a criminal complaint in…
September 2017: The Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA) and SRT grantee the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) have filed a femicide case with the…
18 September 2017: A Bahraini High Court is preparing to sentence the mother-in-law, brother-in-law and cousin of Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, Director of Advocacy at SRT…
A joint investigation by several international media outlets including the Guardian, along with SRT grantee the Organized Crime and Corruption reporting Project (OCCRP), has uncovered a…
New York, 17 August 2017: In a landmark case, SRT grantee the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has announced a settlement in its lawsuit against the…