Nine months. That’s how long brothers Ahmet and Mehmet Altan have been in pre-trail detention in Turkey. Prosecutors are demanding multiple life sentences for the brothers, who will face their first day in court on 19 June.
Index on Censorship is recruiting for its next youth advisory board, which will sit from January to July 2018.
On World Press Freedom Day protesters gathered outside the Turkish Embassy in London to highlight the arrest and imprisonment of journalists in Turkey
Dr. Sunay Usluer, the wife of a journalist imprisoned in Turkey, shares her account of the anxious hours waiting for the release that never came.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “I was arrested in Mufakose and severely assaulted by the police for inciting people to demonstrate,” says Linda Masarira, a Zimbabwean human rights activist and director of the Zimbabwean Women in Politics...
Cumhuriyet journalist Canan Coşkun, facing two upcoming trials for her reporting, talks about her attitude to the dangers of life as a reporter.
All the data points to this last referendum being the beginning of the end for Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
One year on from the exonerating Hillsborough inquest verdict, a campaign has gathered momentum. Its message is simple: “Don’t Buy The Sun”.
Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout Europe
As a new law passed by Hungarian government threatens the existence of Central European University in Budapest, 70,000 people marched in protest