Belarus regime staged hijack to silence their most prominent critic
Roman Protasevich is a dissident and an activist, but above all a journalist
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Martin Bright
Martin Bright
Martin Bright has over 30 years of experience as a journalist, working for the Observer, the Guardian and the New Statesman among others. He has worked on several high-profile freedom of expression cases often involving government secrecy. He broke the story of Iraq War whistleblower Katharine Gun, which was made into the movie Official Secrets (2019) starring Keira Knightley.
British whistleblower held overnight in Croatian psychiatric hospital
Oil industry exec arrested on holiday in 2020 hospitalised after embassy alerted police
Impartiality and independence of police watchdog questioned by whistleblower
A report on the policing of protests supported Priti Patel before evidence-gathering was complete and was influenced by bias against non-violent dissent
Elizabeth Longford
The biographer was one of the four original trustees of the charity behind Index on Censorship