Two members of the ruling party in Germany's Parliament have been accused of profiting from COVID-19 mask deals that brought calls for closer scrutiny of lobbyists' dealings with politicians.

An Iowa reporter has gone on trial after being arrested in 2020 while covering a Black Lives Matter protest. Des Moines Register journalist Andrea Sahouri is being charged for failure to disperse and interference with official acts, while international pressure on prosecutors increases.

After the United States indicated that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, Reporters Without Borders filed a criminal complaint with German prosecutors charging crimes against humanity, including four other officials.

After proclaiming a “massive coup” in getting the world's most famous whistleblower, American former National Security Agency Consultant Edward Snowden as a special guest, he was disinvited from the Swiss Cyber Security Days (SCSD) forum after criticism from business and political leaders.

A partially-blind hitman who confessed to killing Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in October, 2017 with a car bomb was given a reduced 15-year sentence in a case that still hasn't seen the prosecution of those who ordered it.

Two journalists working for the Polish-funded Belsat TV in Belarus received a two year jail sentence for reporting protests over the death of a demonstrator.

Competitors in practice but compatriots in trade, a group of current and former newspaper editors have come together, urging British lawmakers to probe a secretive government unit they say are obstructing Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's administration has put in effect a prohibition on using drones to obtain videos of property without permission. The decision comes a short time after investigative news site Atlatszo.hu had showed images of the estate of Hungary's richest man.

International NGO Blueprint for Free Speech supports the announced move by the Spanish government for law reform that will improve freedom of speech in Spain.

A young Cypriot who was the first to be extradited from the island to the United States was found guilty in the state of Georgia of committing cybercrimes for hacking American sites and demanding ransom to withhold data he found.

Malta is moving to strengthen protection for those who report wrongdoing. The Whistleblower’s Act is set to be revised by the end of the year to comply with the European Union Whistleblowing Directive.

Blueprint has submitted its contributions to the public consultation for the Spanish transposition of the European Directive on the protection of whistleblowers. It advocates a comprehensive law for the protection of whistleblowers, expanding the provision in the European Directive.