It’s 2016. Turkey is in a state of emergency after the failed coup d’etat of the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan government. Journalists like Yavuz Baydar are going to be more at risk than ever before.
On the night that Rahim Haciyev accepted the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Guardian Journalism Award, he held aloft a copy of Azadliq, the paper that persevered despite assaults from the government whose misdoings it exposed
The Iranian-born mechanical engineering student was the editor-in-chief of Fanous, a student magazine which was banned for standing with the Green Movement
“I realise it was the best decision of my life because I would be imprisoned right now, like my colleagues.”
“The question is now, under the change of government, would I be welcome? I’m still being outspoken about what I think.”
“The question is now, under the change of government, would I be welcome? I’m still being outspoken about what I think.”
“I face probably a life sentence or maybe even worse. The idea of not being able to go back to your own country…is just heartbreaking.”
Hamid Ismailov is an Uzbek journalist and writer who was forced to flee Uzbekistan in 1992 due to what the state dubbed “unacceptable democratic tendencies”.
The men from the Sinaloa cartel had made a mistake, and now they were looking to use it to their advantage.
Abdullah Bozkurt, the Ankara bureau chief for Today’s Zaman was forced into exile after the failed July 2016 coup in Turkey.
Kseniya Kirillova thought her stay in the U.S. would be only temporary.
Charles Atangana knows as well as anyone the challenges of being a journalist in Cameroon.
