Index condemns decision by Turkish prosecutors to charge Yavuz Baydar for “insulting” Turkish president
Award-winning Turkish journalist charged with ‘insulting’ Turkey’s President
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Turkey releases two Vice News journalists, must free third
The release of Vice News journalists Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury, who are British, is welcome news. However, Mohammed Ismael Rasool, an Iraqi colleague who had been acting as a translator and fixer, remains in detention.
Free expression groups welcome release of Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury
English PEN, PEN American Center, PEN International and Index on Censorship are relieved that VICE News journalists Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury have been released after six days in detention
Jodie Ginsberg: Terror laws are used to “stifle” media
The UK government should look to what is happening to free expression in Egypt and Turkey before broadening terrorist laws to include those who “spread hate”.
UK Foreign Office issues statement on arrests
Freedom of expression charities have written to UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond urging the UK to speak out publicly in defence of freedom of expression following the arrest of two British journalists in Turkey under terror legislation.
5 countries using anti-terror legislation to muzzle journalists
The anti-terror charges against reporters for Vice News in Turkey are not isolated. In recent years, a number of countries have used broad anti-terror laws to restrict the freedom of the press.
Journalism is not a crime – Turkey must release charged Vice journalists
Index on Censorship calls on Turkey to release two Vice journalists and a local colleague who have been formally charged with “working on behalf of a terrorist organisation”.
Letter: Academic freedom is under threat and needs urgent protection
With threats ranging from “no-platforming”, to governments trying to suppress critical voices, and corporate controls on research funding, academics and writers from across the world have signed Index’s open letter on why academic freedom needs urgent protection
Media freedom in Europe needs action more than words
Freedom of expression is an assumed right in the European Union. But that assumption is little more than an idea anchored in our mental routine.
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Padraig Reidy: Life in paranoid Erdoganistan, where every day brings a new censorship story
Another week, another social media ban in Turkey. Such is life these days in Erdoganistan, where every day brings a new censorship story, greeted now with what my Turkish friend calls “the humour of desparation”.