NSA whistleblower Reality Winner, convicted in 2018 of leaking a top-secret report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, tested positive for COVID-19 in the Texas Federal prison where she's serving a five-year term.

Trailing only Communist China for the ignominious world record of jailing journalists, Turkey is again stepping up its siege on the media.

EU member states are beginning the process of transposing the requirements of the EU Whistleblower Directive into national law.

Organisations in defence of whistleblowers request a participative, open and transparent process to transpose the European Directive 2019/1937 into Spanish law

On June 17, Spain's Congress voted against an anti-corruption proposal which aimed to transpose the EU Whistleblower Directive into national law.

Citing privacy concerns from the country's Data Protection Authorities, Norway's public health agency stopped using a COVID-19 track and trace app and deleted all the data collected to date.

Today Blueprint for Free Speech published an Op Ed in the Spanish mainstream media publication ElDiario.es, highlighting how the proposal to protect whistleblowers that is being considered in the Congress today falls short of protecting them, and also fails to transpose the European Directive 2019/1937.

This week, the political party Ciudadanos has stepped forward pushing whistleblower protection near the top of its lawmaking agenda for this session. Blueprint’s Dr Suelette Dreyfus and Bruno Galizzi make the case for robust protections in line with the EU Whistleblowing Directive.

After many delays, whistleblower protection has made it on to the legislative agenda in Spain. Over the next two days, Spain’s Congress will debate and vote on a proposal made by the political party Ciudadanos.

With the media under siege by police and governments during the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic, there's a need for quality journalism by veteran reporters providing real news, according to European Commission Vice President for Transparency Věra Jourová.

For years, experts have claimed that Germany’s stance in fighting corruption is far from solid – now, another political scandal underlines the dire need for better legislation on transparency and lobbying in the EU’s largest Member State.

Facing a parliamentary probe into her handling of a case into whether the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis paid bribes to Greek politicians, anti-corruption chief Eleni Touloupaki denied wrongdoing and said she's the victim of a “coordinated attempt at moral extermination.”