Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

The complaint accuses unidentified police officers – who are tasked by the state with protecting lives and property – with deliberate violence against media personnel and damage to their property during the “gilets jaunes” protests.

The latest wave of protests in France, this time against a proposed pension reform, have seen reporters injured by police batons, burned by sting ball grenades, taken into custody, and their equipment smashed.

The two bills currently being debated by Nigeria’s Senate are both highly contentious and if passed will introduce harsh penalties, including the death sentence.

The groups consider Banks’s case to be an example of a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP), as it is vexatious in nature and intended to silence Cadwalladr’s investigative journalism.

Laotian blogger Muay Littlepig was sentenced to five years in prison for criticising the government’s poor response to a flooding disaster.

If new draft laws enter into force, they will introduce mandatory registration for online media and create a body with the power to fine, shut down and block sites and platforms – all without a court order. Online media will be regulated by the state.

Filed with the French financial prosecutor’s office and the Paris public prosecutor, the complaint asks for Keith Schembri, Konrad Mizzi and businessman Yorgen Fenech to be investigated on suspicion of giving or taking bribes and complicity in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia.

It took little more than a week for Sri Lanka’s new president to start having an alarming impact on press freedom.