In Turkey, the government uses national security and terror legislation to censor journalists. Arrests, detentions and trials of media workers are frequent.
Human rights and freedom of expression organisations have condemned a judicial ruling made by a Turkish court in the second hearing of the Gezi Park trial.
This report looks at physical assaults that Index on Censorship’s Monitoring and Advocating for Media Freedom project classified as threats, limitations or violations of press freedom in Ukraine between 1 February 2019 and 30 June 2019.
Index on Censorship, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and 18 other human rights and freedom of expression organisations condemn a Turkish pro-government think-tank’s report that accuses leading international media of being biased against the government and singles out their correspondents for attack.
There were 32 incidents in Russia in June 2019 recorded by Index’s monitoring project.
Fatima Tlisova didn’t make it easy for the Russian government to get rid of her. As a reporter covering Russia’s fight against Chechen separatists in what was known as the Second Chechen war in the early 2000s, she was kidnapped, beaten and had her fingertips burned with cigarettes by Russian security forces.
There were 6 incidents in Ukraine in June 2019 recorded by Index’s monitoring project.
There were 30 incidents in Turkey in June 2019 recorded by Index’s monitoring project.
There were 5 incidents in Belarus in June 2019 recorded by Index’s monitoring project.
There were 2 incidents in Azerbaijan in June 2019 recorded by Index’s monitoring project.