This is a story of corruption, whistleblowing, retaliation and broken lives. It is not an easy story to stomach. But it is an essential story. It highlights, all too graphically, what we in the whistleblower protection movement are fighting for – and why.

In a story that illustrates the risks and unpredictability of being a whistleblower, a government employee in Serbia was imprisoned with the complicity of the very same official whose alleged corruption she reported two years earlier.

Members of the United Kingdom Parliament have been added to the list of prescribed persons to whom whistleblowers may make a protected disclosures under the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order 1999.

Following a string of government and corporate scandals in recent years, Greece, which has seen a long has enacted its first legal protections for whistleblowers.

The Associated Whistle-Blowing Press (AWP) has officially launched its second local whistleblowing platform. The website, 'Fíltrala' (literally "leak it"), is targeted at the Spanish public and uses software developed by GlobaLeaks—an open-source whistleblowing framework for safe file transmission.

A Hungarian patent lawyer has become the subject in a criminal investigation after making a public interest disclosure regarding a security flaw in the National Intellectual Property Bureau (SZTNH) website.

In January 2014 the Bosnia and Herzegovina Whistleblower Protection Act came into effect.

In January 2014 Hungary’s new whistleblower law came into effect.The Complaints and Public Interest Disclosure Act, passed in October 2013, updated whistleblower law for public and private sector employees.

In November 2013 the Whistleblowing Commission, convened by the London-based whistleblower support NGO Public Concern at Work, released 25 recommendations for improving whistleblowing in UK workplaces.

In July 2013 Malta’s Parliament passed the Protection of the Whistleblower Act. This Act, which took effect in September 2013, provides legal protections for public and private sector employees.

In June 2013, France’s Public Administration Minister announced a proposal to protect whistleblowers in the public service.

Increased calls by Members of the EU Parliament for a new whistleblower protection law for the EU have been rejected.