As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange London continues to wait in jail for a COVID-19 delayed trial that could see him extradited to the United States to face espionage charges, his partner, Stella Moris, launched a CrowdJustice campaign to help fund his defense.

Roberto Macías, the Spanish whistleblower who revealed one of the biggest labor corruption scandals in Spanish history and whose subsequent two-year prison sentence is on hold while he appeals his conviction, has invoked a provision in the European Union's new Whistleblower Directive. The new law doesn't come into effect until the end of 2021.

After an Australian court ruled a journalist can't protect a source in a murder and terrorism case, a government plan to bar the media from reporting corruption allegations during election campaigns has been pulled back abruptly.

In another blow to press freedom in Australia, a Queensland court ruled that an unidentified TV journalist can't protect a source who gave information in a murder case and terrorism raids.

As countries across the EU’s 27 member states begin to develop new whistleblower protection laws, Blueprint is pleased to publish our new online tool for evaluating proposed legislation against the Directive's requirements.

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.