In their recent report, Transparency International demonstrates persistent gaps in the global fight against foreign bribery, saying only four of 47 countries surveyed were enforcing legislation aimed at combating the phenomenon.

Three years after being killed by a car bomb as she was looking into high-level corruption and ties between Malta's government and business executives, money laundering banks and mobsters, the European Parliament has named a prize in “Outstanding Journalism Work” in the name of Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Abdullah Bozkurt, a Sweden-based Turkish journalist and the Executive Director of the Nordic Monitor was attacked by three men outside his home in Stockholm and beaten, following his coverage of Turkish politics and intelligence.

In a blow to countries that require Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to store and make their customers' data available to national intelligence agencies, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) struck down the practice in a ruling against France, the United Kingdom and Belgium.

In a recent audit, the European Union found that Hungary isn't doing enough to stop corruption, while Poland is forging ahead with judicial takeovers and stifling media freedom.

If anything became clear yesterday on the third day of the 4th Congress on Transparency, which is being held virtually, it was supporting the ability of whistleblowers to anonymously report irregularities or malfunctions in companies or public administrations.

Facing weeks of unrelenting protests against what critics call a rigged re-election, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko's government suspended the country's top independent news site as high tech pros formed a hacking collective disrupting state-run propaganda stations.

A spyware tool developed by a British-German company that can infiltrate computer operating systems, record every key stroke, intercept calls and siphon away data is being still being used by Egypt to target journalists and activists, many years after it was first identified, according to a new report from Amnesty International.

Westpac, one of Australia's largest banks, will pay a record-breaking $920 million penalty for allowing money laundering and terrorism financing. Employees responsible for laws to be broken 23 million times will not be prosecuted.

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.