A regional network of journalists, artists and activists is using the platform Balkan Diskurs to provide objective news against a backdrop of mounting media partisanship, writes Tim Bidey
The women challenging Bosnia’s divided media
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
Padraig Reidy: War on truthiness
Journalism should, at least, be against truthiness, if only out of self interest. If anyone can make stuff up and get 1,000 shares on Twitter, why pay people for deep digging or elegant writing?
Azerbaijan must release human rights defenders, journalists and activists
Intigam Aliyev, prominent human rights lawyer from Azerbaijan, was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison. HRHN members express their dismay and call for his release.
Azerbaijan sentences human rights lawyer to prison
The sentencing of Intigam Aliyev, a respected human rights attorney, to seven and a half years in prison is yet another example of Azerbaijan’s rigged judicial system and the continued stifling of civil society.
Judith Vidal-Hall: Taking on the giant
When a group of claimants in the UK took on Google for invasion of privacy, they had little idea that the case would become a landmark in the fight to tame the internet giant’s intrusion into our lives on the web
Kostas Vaxevanis: Greek justice and freedom of the press exist in name only
Kostas Vaxevanis won the 2013 Index on Censorship Journalism award for his investigative journalism through his work on the magazine HotDoc. On 30 March 2015 he was convicted of criminal defamation for his reporting on banking irregularities in Greece and given a 26 month suspended sentence.
Baku 2015 European Games: Give human rights a sporting chance in Azerbaijan
In June 2015, Azerbaijan’s capital Baku will host the first ever European Games under the umbrella of the European Olympic Committees. Controversy...
Rasul Jafarov’s conviction: Latest human rights violation in Azerbaijan
The Sport for Rights coalition resolutely condemns yesterday’s sentencing of Rasul Jafarov, a prominent Azerbaijani human rights defender, to 6.5 years in prison on politically motivated charges. The coalition calls for his immediate release.
Azerbaijan: Six-year jail sentence for human rights activist
Rasul Jafarov, one of Azerbaijan’s most well-known government critics, has been sentenced on charges believed to be linked to his campaigning work
Twitter users hijack #HelloBaku to shine spotlight on Azerbaijan’s human rights abuses
The hashtag was launched by organisers of this summer’s inaugural European Games in the country’s capital Baku
28 April: Press briefing: Give human rights a sporting chance in Azerbaijan
How can journalists effectively cover the full scope of human rights, social and political issues surrounding this summer’s European Games in Baku?
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”.
