Between 2013 and 2015, 10 Bulgarian municipalities spent $1.54 million on positive coverage of their activities
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Turkey: Think you are free? Think again
If made out of the right stuff a journalist is a tough nut. Some of us are, you may say, born that way. Our profession lives in our cells. We are compelled to do what our DNA instructs us to do.
Can Dündar: “We have your wife. Come back or she’s gone”
I had not imagined that a state could become no better than a criminal syndicate. But the Turkish state has become one.
Mapping Media Freedom: In review 2-8 September
Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout Europe
Dunja Mijatović: The fight against terror should not be a fight against basic human rights
We know Europeans want something to be terrorism. Living in a perpetual state of fear is not the natural consequence of living in 21st century liberal democracies. But neither is living in a police state.
Kaya Genç: “This is your future … if your generation does not fight for it, it will be a disastrous one”
In his new book, Under the Shadow: Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey, Index on Censorship magazine contributing editor Kaya Genç explores the country’s struggles through the eyes of Gezi Park protesters, pro-government conservatives, artists, censored journalists and more.
Mapping Media Freedom: In review 19 August-1 September
Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout Europe
Bahrain: Protesters celebrate Nabeel Rajab’s birthday and call for his release
Human rights organisations gathered at the Bahrain Embassy in London to support one of the Middle East’s most prominent human rights defenders
Turkey: Losing the rule of law
“When I understood that I was to be detained by a directive given from the top, my fear vanished,” novelist and journalist Aslı Erdoğan told the daily Cumhuriyet
Who is Nabeel Rajab?
Nabeel Rajab, just like you, thinks his country could be better. And he has made those views public. He speaks out against poor prison conditions, and argues for more freedom of speech in Bahrain.