Turkish journalist Zübeyde Sari began her career in 2009. By 2018, following President Erdogan’s crack down on the media, she was forced to flee.
Project Exile: Turkish journalist still fearful in Germany
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Project Exile: Reporter escaped Russia after beating, burns
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.
Project Exile: Criticising Kurdish referendum forces journalist to leave Iraq
Despite Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region’s close ties to the U.S. and billions of dollars in foreign investment, Iraqi Kurdistan is no easy place to be a journalist. Kamal Chomani’s experience is just one example.
Project Exile: Moroccan journalist Hicham Mansouri flees after being stripped and jailed
Efforts to prosecute or intimidate journalists are not unusual in Morocco, and as Hicham Mansouri’s story demonstrates, the government of King Mohammed VI can be both cruel and creative in its efforts to silence dissenting voices.
Project Exile: Tajikistan harasses reporter into exile
“I knew that they have just one goal: they want to see me out of journalism.”
Project Exile: Turkish journalist lost home and family
“One thing is broken: my heart.”
Global Journalist: Local news in global decline
Index magazine editor Rachael Jolley joins Global Journalist to discuss the decline of local news all around the world and what this means for democracy.
Project Exile: Editor escaped Sri Lanka after husband’s murder
“You really feel like your country has betrayed you.”
Project Exile: Threatened in Mexico, facing deportation in the USA
Journalist Emilio Gutiérrez fled Mexico after soldiers sent him a warning. Now the USA wants to send him back.
Project Exile: Vietnam journalist went to France after six years in prison
“The problems started when I did not confess to any crimes and when I refused to wear the prison uniform”