A claim by Greek sailing gold medalist Sofia Bekatorou she was sexually assaulted in 1998 by a Hellenic Sailing Federation (HSF) official has brought an outpouring of support for her and led to other women making similar allegations against sports officials, doctors and academics in the country.

An international coalition of more than 40 groups, including Blueprint for Free Speech, is seeking to prevent Croatia from extraditing a British whistleblower to Monoco. Jonathan Taylor previously revealed a bribery scheme in the offshore oil industry.

As the Biden administration takes office, Blueprint for Free Speech highlights the threat the US prosecution of WikiLeaks publisher and journalist Julian Assange represents to First Amendment rights and freedom of expression worldwide.

President Joe Biden's nominee for Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, told a Senate confirmation hearing she would declassify an intelligence report into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi that former President Donald Trump blocked.

A groundswell of supporter seeking a pardon for Julian Assange has developed in the last days of President Donald Trump's administration to win freedom for the WikiLeaks founder after a British judged ruled out his extradition to the United States.

Blueprint for Free Speech has launched an international campaign seeking to secure a Presidential pardon for imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher and journalist Julian Assange.

British Judge Vanessa Baraitser, who turned down a United States request to extradite jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges for revealing state secrets, denied him bail at the January 6 hearing, saying he was a flight risk.

A British judge has rejected the request to have jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange extradited to the US, where he was to face espionage charges for revealing the killing of civilians and journalists in Iraq by American forces.

An Italian doctor for the United Nations whose withdrawn report for the World Health Organization warned in May about political risks of people dying from COVID-19 now faces retaliation as a whistleblower.

The German Justice Ministry has finalized a first draft for a comprehensive national whistleblower protection law. The draft comes in response to the obligation of all EU Member States to introduce legislation in compliance with last year‘s EU whistleblowing Directive.

At least 387 journalists and media workers were jailed worldwide as of December 1 this year, with 130 arrested for reporting on the COVID-19 crisis. The figures were compiled by the German office of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and announced in its annual report.

The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) said Greece's New Democracy government failed to strengthen anti-corruption laws diluted by the former ruling SYRIZA. The Radical Left group had introduced softer sanctions on bribery involving public officials.