Banners Who killed Daphne? and Baqgħu sakemm qatluha were put up across Malta last night marking the fifth month since her death on Friday.

Later during the day, a group of #resistance/#resistenza activists placed placards on the road from Bidnija to Burmarrad. The placards carried messages such as "Rule of delinquents" and "A journalist killed in a climate of impunity".

Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered in a car bomb on October 16.

The months following the killing have been characterised by a stream of controversies amid calls for the replacement of the Police Commissioner and the Attorney General and the strengthening of the rule of law and press freedom.

The situation has been debated in the Maltese parliament and the European Parliament.

Controversy has also raged over the makeshift memorial for Caruana Galizia at the foot of the Great Siege Monument in Valletta, amid calls for the Civil Society Network for a permanent memorial to the journalist in Great Siege Square.

On Thursday evening, Malta's embassy in Berlin was lit up with projections noting that "Europe is waiting" for justice.

The projections are the result of a collaboration between local activist group Kenniesa and human rights activists PixelHELPER.org.

A vigil by the Civil Society Network, #occupyjustice, Il-Kenniesa and L-Awturi is being held in Great Siege Square at 6.30pm on Friday.

In the meantime, one month ahead of the UK assuming Chairmanship of the Commonwealth in April 2018, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) secretary general Christophe Deloire has written to Prime Minister Theresa May urging her to prioritise the promotion of safety of journalists during the UK’s two-year mandate.

More than 700 journalists were killed over the past decade in connection with their work. In the letter to May, RSF outlined recent cases of violence against journalists in Commonwealth states, including the murders in 2017 of MsCaruana Galizia in Malta; Gauri Lankesh, Navin Gupta, Shantanu Bhowmick, and Sudip Datta Bhaumik in India; and Abdul Hakim Shimul in Bangladesh.

The letter also highlights the abductions of journalists Charles Etukuri in Uganda and Azori Gwanda in Tanzania, both of whom remain missing, and the attempted armed kidnapping of Taha Siddiqui in Pakistan, as well as a string of attacks in Trinidad and Tobago, including assaults on Guardian journalists Kristian De Silva and Sascha Wilson.