Portuguese whistleblower Rui Pinto, accused of hacking computer systems of a number of European football teams, said as his trial opened that he did it to reveal corruption and not for personal gain.

If the United States gets its hands on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, journalists around the world will be next.

An American journalism professor and former investigative reporter, testifying on behalf of Julian Assange at his extradition trial in London, said the WikiLeaks founder is being prosecuted by the United States to silence journalists and whistleblowers.

With his extradition hearing commencing today at London’s Central Criminal Court, lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, fighting attempts by the United States to extradite him to face espionage charges for revealing classified information, lost their their attempt to delay the hearing to January 2021.

The Rui Pinto, Jonathan Taylor and Julian Assange cases show that extradition is a critical threat to whistleblowers and the journalists who depend on them.

As a number of governments are accused of using the cover of COVID-19 to try to prevent critical media reports, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said journalists need protection.

While the 2018 murders of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova, shot dead at home, shocked Slovakia and terminated a government, the man accused of directing it was acquitted by a panel of judges on September 3rd.

Refusing to pay for content that users post on its site in Australia, Facebook said it could bar the practice as media companies demanded to be compensated for the content.

An Australian parliamentary committee set up to inquire the legitimacy of recent police raids on a journalist has said reporters should not have immunity from secrecy offenses.

With COVID-19's second wave engulfing a number of European Union the bloc has responded with a record 1.8 trillion euros ($2.13 billion) in aid, but warned against fraud and corruption.

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.