Britain’s new counter-terrorism bill, which passed into law on Tuesday, threatens freedom of expression, Index warns
Freedom of expression and the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
Elif Akgül on the Turkish “virtual patrol squads” going after Kurdish social media users
Already known as the biggest prison for journalists, Turkey is increasingly jailing social media users
Index renews calls for Azerbaijan to release journalist Afgan Mukhtarli
Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Mukhtarli fled the country in fear in 2014 but in May 2017 he vanished while in Tbilisi, Georgia, and reappeared the following day back in his home country
Project Exile: Turkey’s Dündar free in exile, still threatened
Can Dündar isn’t easily silenced. The outspoken Turkish columnist and editor has been fired, jailed and even shot at by a would-be assassin for his coverage of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government.
Escalating repression against Mehman Huseynov
Member and partner NGOs of 13 Human Rights Houses issue a joint letter calling for urgent action from the international community to ensure the life, health, and rights of imprisoned Azerbaijani photojournalist, video blogger, and human rights defender Mehman Huseynov.
Turkey “turned into a place where it became impossible to breathe”
“It turned into a place where it became impossible to breathe,” says feminist visual artist Özgül Arslan about Turkey.
Project Exile: Russian journalist flees after car fire, faeces attack
A decade ago, Russian journalist Yulia Latynina thought dissidents who compared President Vladimir Putin’s rule to the Soviet times were ridiculous.
Doing their masters’ bidding: Media smear campaigns in central and eastern Europe
Unpatriotic behaviour. Sedition. Being in the pay of shadowy external forces. Faking a neo-Nazi event. These are just a few of the charges that have recently been levelled against independent journalists by pro-government media outlets in several central and eastern European countries.
Spain: “Purge” at state-owned RTVE following political pressure
The reform of Spanish public television and radio RTVE exposes how political interests dominate the corporation
In Turkey, dismissed academics nurture knowledge off campus
Professors in Mersin and Eskişehir have responded to their dismissals by creating their own spaces for sharing knowledge: Kültürhane and Eskişehir School