One year on: The reverberations of the war in the Middle East
A year into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the reverberations of the conflict continue to be felt across the Middle East. The centrality of the Middle East within global supply…
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Old enemies make new friends: Caucasus and India-Pakistan rivalry
Summary: Ukraine is changing the world. The fact that India and Pakistan are selling arms and military consulting services in the Caucasus is symptomatic of the withering of the Russian…
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Carole Cadwalladr, Investigative Journalist
“The personal, physical, psychological and professional toll of fighting this case has been profound. But it’s not my win, it belongs to the legal team and the 28,887 people who…
Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat, an open source news agency
“Prigozhin’s SLAPP case against me was one of the most blatant SLAPP cases I’ve encountered, with evidence indicating it was a direct response to EU sanctions against Prigozhin in part…
Catherine Belton, Journalist and Author of ‘Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West’
“The cases really show just how important it is that there are better defences for journalists. No matter how good the sourcing is on some of these claims, and no…
Tom Burgis, Investigative journalist and author of ‘Kleptopia: How dirty money is conquering the world’
“Winning these cases,settling them and making them go away is not a complete victory. There is money that will not be got back that could have been spent on other…
Forensic News, a US based investigative news website, its founder Scott Stedman and others
“Over the last 18 months, I have lived the increasingly too-common life of an investigative journalist who splits his time between researching and writing articles and tending to a lawsuit.”[1]…
Realtid, a Swedish business publication, its editor and two investigative journalists
“We started to do a really basic story, and this is what many people ask, when they look into our case and say ‘Oh, why are you being sued?’ and…
Paul Radu, co–founder of the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)
“So, how does a Romanian reporter —or, for that matter, any foreign journalist— get sued in the United Kingdom by an Azerbaijani politician for an article about corruption taking place…
Clare Rewcastle Brown, Investigative journalist and founder of The Sarawak Report
“Those wishing to pursue legal action against me in 2017 were advised, according to someone involved in the conversations, that for an outlay of no more than £200,000 I could…