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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On 5th November 2015 a tailings dam, holding waste from an iron ore mine, burst flooding the village of Bento Rodrigues in the state of…
Egypt, March 2016: A five-year investigation into the funding and registration of independent human rights groups in Egypt has gathered pace in recent months, with…
9th March 2016: In a landmark ruling, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has ordered the Ethiopian government to pay $150,000 compensation in…
Bahrain, March 14th 2016: Bahraini security forces have raided the house of prominent human rights activist Zainab Al-Khawaja and arrested her with her 15-month-old son.
Scotland, March 11th 2016: The Scottish Government Minister responsible for Culture, Fiona Hyslop, has announced a further £2.5m investment into the continuing work of SRT…
North Caucasus, 9th March, 2016: A group of masked men, armed with baseball bats and “sharp objects”, has attacked a minibus carrying nine people, including…
In an article in Granta magazine in March 2016, Patrick Ball from SRT grantee Human Rights Data Analysis Group discusses how he and his…
Summary: Israeli human rights groups express concern about pending NGO Bill. Pending legislation in Israel to restrict foreign government funding to NGOs could have serious…
La Esperanza, Intibuca, Honduras, March 3rd, 2016: Berta Cáceres, one of the leading indigenous activists and environmental rights campaigners in Honduras, has been found shot…
Guatemala City, February 26th 2016: Two former senior military officers have been found guilty of crimes against humanity involving murder, sexual slavery and other atrocities…