Julian Assange's lawyers, fighting US attempts to extradite him from Britain to face espionage charges, said he was abused in prison and had case files confiscated by guards.

Julian Assange has been in detention in London while awaiting an extradition trial with the US wanting to get its hands on him to likely face espionage charges for publishing classified videos and documents about American war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Chinese government is said to have concealed the extent of the new virus' spread, which otherwise could have been limited, allege doctors, a nurse and an opthamologist in China.

Investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald, who is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning work on Edward Snowden's revelations about mass surveillance, has been charged under Brazilian computer crimes laws

Former soldier Miroslav Marcek admitted to killing investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova, a crime that rocked Slovakia.

Authorities said they believed the killings were tied to Kuciak's work investigating possible widespread government corruption and ties between Slovak politicians and Italian mobsters.

Governments are still paying the price for not making cybersecurity a priority.

British media reported that the 48-year-old Australian, who doctors said is in poor health, heard his lawyers complain they've been unable to fully review the US case against him.

With journalists under siege, China moved past Turkey as the world leader in jailing reporters, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

According to Dutch Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra, the European Union hasn’t seen the end of money laundering scandals in some of the bloc’s biggest banks.

The leader of a European Parliament mission to Malta said embattled Prime Minister Joseph Muscat should be questioned by police as a probe into the 2017 murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia led into his office.

Joseph Muscat's government is scrambling to survive after cabinet members linked to the investigation into the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia resign.