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As France continues to push the envelope in terms of enforcing a worldwide “right to be forgotten,” free press advocates in the U.S. have stepped in to help Google defend itself from an order to delist content across the global Internet. Read the full article
Join Index on Censorship for a candlelit evening of songs censored and silenced, played live by award-winning Norwegian musician Moddi.
Set in the beautifully restored Victorian Hoxton Hall, this one-night-only celebration will feature banned songs from around the world, from artists including Pussy Riot and Kate Bush. Following a sell-out European tour, this is an exclusive opportunity to see a brilliant musician in one of London’s historic East End venues. Moddi’s remarkable collection reveals untold stories of censorship, persecution and repression. Guests will be greeted with a complimentary beer courtesy of cult craft brewery Flying Dog – and the party will continue long after the songs have ended.
We’re also raffling fantastic prizes including a luxury London hotel stay, a Whole Foods gift hamper worth £200, a month’s supply of Divine Chocolate, a case of Flying Dog beer, autographed books by legendary comedy writer John O’Farrell and much more.
If you can’t make the gig, but still want to be in with a chance of winning, donate now to Index on Censorship. Anyone who donates £10 or more between now and December 7 will be entered in to the raffle. (Entrants must be UK-based and be able to collect their prizes in person from our London office by 16 December.)
The event is in support of leading freedom of expression charity Index on Censorship, amplifying the voices of musicians, artists and others around the world who are currently facing censorship and repression.
Moddi (Photo: Jørgen Nordby)
On Moddi:
“Making banned music dangerous once again.” The Independent
“Music still has the power to confront authority” The Guardian
“Witty and spry” Financial Times
“A brave, thought-provoking, musically adventurous project” The Quietus
“An eye-opening lesson in the importance of music” Mojo
Moddi will be performing songs from his Unsongs album:
Raffle prizes include:
Wireless speaker worth £250 from Cambridge Audio
Luxury London hotel stay with Edwardian Hotels
Whole Foods gift hamper & £50 gift voucher (Total value £200)
£120 gift voucher for inamo restaurant
One of a kind Flying Dog beer gift basket
Case of biodynamic prosecco
Case of beer
Month’s supply of Divine Chocolate bars
Google Chromecast x 3
Hamilton playscript
Harry Potter & the Cursed Child playscript & Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them screenplay
Signed copy of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad
Autographed books from John O’Farrell
£20 Pret a Manger voucher
Winners will be notified by Monday 12 December.
With special thanks to Flying Dog Brewery and Divine Chocolate.
What is worse: intelligence services gathering data without any legal basis or secret services operating within a legal framework that allows them to obtain vast amounts of personal information? This is the key question regarding Germany’s surveillance apparatus, as a new law regarding its foreign intelligence agency, the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), was passed through parliament on Friday 21 October.
Following the 2013 uncovering of the mass-scale surveillance by America’s National Security Agency, including details of the tapping of German chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone, there was a sense in German public debate that secret services were out of control. In early 2014, a parliamentary committee was established in the national chamber of the Bundestag to investigate the scale of surveillance activities of foreign intelligence in Germany. Attention soon shifted to the role of the BND, after former NSA employee Thomas Drake called the agency “an addendum appendix of the NSA” in his testimony to the committee in July of that year.
While the German government began the process to reform the legal framework of the BND, the governmentally-appointed officer for data protection and freedom of information took a closer look at the work of the service’s telecommunications unit in the southern town of Bad Aiblingen.
What it found was remarkable: across 60 pages, the expert report from March 2016 listed legal breaches by the BND. Although the intelligence service had been “repeatedly and heavily obstructing my work”, the officer was able to gain a picture full enough to pinpoint 18 “serious transgressions” and submit 12 official complaints, which, according to the investigative tech-blog Netzpolitik.org, is a record unrivalled by any governmental office in Germany to receive at one point in time.
Surveillance-critical civil society in the country may have been hopeful to see the intelligence service face consequences for past transgressions and future limitations for its activities. They were in for a surprise, though, as the BND law put forward in June this year proposed to legalise all surveillance activities that had thus far been taking place and further expand their scope additionally. The new law allows the foreign secret service thus-far illicit in-country surveillance.
In theory, any German-to-German communication would have to be excluded from surveillance, but two independent reports by experts, including one by Chaos Computer Club, found that online traffic does not carry a clearly discernible nationality. The constitutionally stipulated freedom of privacy of communication suddenly appears less convincing. It also follows that any non-EU national is not considered bearer of fundamental rights enjoyed, on paper, by anyone living in Germany, as all electronic communication including at least one foreign-based party can now be analysed and stored for up to six months, including all metadata. This will include foreign journalists and the sources they are in contact with. The previous 20%-rule, whereby the BND was limited to only intercept and analyse so much of the traffic available, was lifted altogether. The extended competencies were not left without a new and grand mission: surveillance can now take place to reap “insights into foreign and security policy [which] may be of relevance”.
Senior investigative journalist David Crawford spoke to Index on Censorship about an opportunity missed in the sense that the “legislative process had not been used as a forum what intelligence services should do but…to legalise practices that were already going on”. A “silent consensus” across the grand coalition seemed to exist and it appears that policy-makers close to the intelligence services had successfully dominated the reform process and delivered a law tailor-made for the BND.
Although the result may be unsatisfactory Crawford said that, in the German context, it was generally “positive to write down the rules of behaviour” for a practice that have been ongoing for decades and employed by more resourceful intelligence services worldwide. While especially the aspect of information sharing between foreign secret services appears worrying to Crawford, the investigative journalist points out that this professional group never had any “real protection, they are treated like any citizen” under German law. Thus, he emphasised that no journalist should pass the responsibility for safeguarding his or her sources to the state law or EU regulations: “It is up to the person to get the training they need, to put a lot of thought into how they can do this without somebody getting hurt”.
While extensive electronic surveillance by multiple states has to be reckoned with, regardless of a legal basis for the practices, the journalist should employ the right kinds of “tricks of the trade” to make sure that any whistleblower who helped uncover a story will, under no circumstances, suffer: “a lot of the time it is just going out meeting people, not using the phone, not even using the mail…I figure out a way to meet them, knocking on people’s doors or meeting them in a supermarket or somewhere, where you are unlikely to be monitored and they would feel a lot more comfortable talking…Use less technology, use a pencil, cite documents rather than announcing you have a whistleblower.”
According to Crawford, the lack of investigative journalism in general and the unawareness of some journalists engaging in serious investigative projects may be at the root of a sloppiness with the more time-consuming methods that the job requires in a reality of surveillance.
Index on Censorship’s Julia Farrington will be taking part in an evening of rapid-fire talks, screenings and performances staged on Ai Weiwei’s work, Fondation, a platform made from the ruins of ancient columns. In the open spirit of the Roman forum or Greek agora, a number of speakers will discuss borders, identity and people’s role in politics.
Presented by ArtReview Live at the Lisson Gallery.
Speakers include:
Adam Broomberg, Hands off Our Revolution
Sue Clayton, I am Human – Precarious Journeys
Michaela Crimmin, Culture+Conflict
Julia Farrington, Index on Censorship
Jeremy Hutchison, Artist
Sam Jacob, Architect
Keep it Complex Activist group
Kenan Malik, Writer and broadcaster
John Sauven, Greenpeace
Nigel Rolfe, Performance artist
Legacy Russell, Writer and curator
Fatos Ustek, Curator
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When: 6.30pm, Thursday 8 December
Where: Lisson Gallery, 67 Lisson Street London NW1 5BY
Tickets: Free, but registration is required. Contact rsvp@artreview.com
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Winner of the 2016 Freedom of Expression Arts Award, artist Murad Subay uses his country’s streets as a canvas to protest Yemen’s war, institutionalised corruption and forced “disappearings”.
Since beginning a street art protest in 2011 Subay has launched five campaigns to promote peace and encourage discussion of sensitive political issues. All his painting is done in public during the day and he encourages fellow Yemenis to get involved. Subay has often been targeted by the authorities, painting over his works or restricting him from painting further.
“I found that the soul of the Yemeni people was broken because of war… I found that the buildings and the streets were full of bullets, full of damage. So I went on Facebook and said I would go on to the streets to paint the next day and I did.” — Murad Subay
Hilary Mantel is the two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize for her bestselling novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies. The Royal Shakespeare and the BBC have adapted both works for the stage and the screen, respectively. She has written 14 books, including the short-story compilation The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher and a memoir, Giving up the Ghost. She is currently at work on the third installment of her Thomas Cromwell Trilogy.
Valerie Plame Wilson
Former CIA officer
Valerie Plame Wilson is a former CIA operative. She is married to the former US ambassador Joseph Wilson. Her identity became public in the “CIA leak scandel” during the George W Bush administration, after her husband criticised the government. Her book Fair Game was also turned into a film starring Sean Penn.
Can Dündar
Journalist
Can Dündar, former editor-in-chief of Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet, was sentenced to five years in prison on a charge of “revealing state secrets” for reporting on sales of weapons by Turkish intelligence to Syrian fighters. He is appealing the verdict. His new book is We Are Arrested (Biteback).Can Dündar, former editor-in-chief of Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet, was sentenced to five years in prison on a charge of “revealing state secrets” for reporting on sales of weapons by Turkish intelligence to Syrian fighters. He is appealing the verdict. His new book is We Are Arrested (Biteback).
Selected from over 400 public nominations and a shortlist of 16, the 2017 Freedom of Expression Awards Fellows exemplify courage in the face of censorship. Learn more about the fellowship.
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A coalition of 14 leading international press freedom and freedom of expression organisations today condemned as an “extraordinary attack on press freedom” the jailing of top journalists with Turkey’s Cumhuriyet newspaper and the closure of 15 pro-Kurdish media in a letter to leading Turkish officials.
On Monday, October 31, Turkish authorities launched a mass operation against Cumhuriyet, a secular daily considered one of the last opposition media voices in Turkey. Police arrested nearly a dozen journalists, managers and lawyers, including Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu and columnist Kadri Gürsel, a member of the International Press Institute’s global Executive Board.
The coalition said today it was “deeply disturbed” by the attack both against “a highly respected newspaper that remains one of Turkey’s last sources of critical news and information and a representative of a major international human rights organisation”.
The operation against Cumhuriyet followed the closure of 15 pro-Kurdish media outlets on Saturday, which the coalition described as a “further attempt by the Turkish government to control all media coverage of the ongoing operations [in the country’s South East], and prevent independent media from investigating grave human rights abuses there”.
Members of the coalition called on Turkey to immediately release the detained Cumhuriyet journalists, as well as the estimated more than 130 other journalists currently behind bars “for exercising their right to freedom of expression” in the country.
In copies of the letter addressed to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag, the group made an urgent request to discuss its concerns in person.
Read the text of the letters below in English and Turkish. The letter can also be downloaded as a PDF in English and Turkish.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Cumhurbaşkanlığı Külliyesi 06560 Beştepe-Ankara
Sent via email
02 November 2016
Dear President Erdoğan:
The undersigned members of an international coalition of leading press freedom and freedom of expression groups request an urgent meeting with you following Monday’s operation against the newspaper Cumhuriyet and Saturday’s closure of 15 pro-Kurdish media outlets.
Police on Monday arrested and raided the homes of at least a dozen journalists working for Cumhuriyet. Among those arrested were Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu and columnist Kadri Gürsel. Mr. Gürsel is also a member of the Executive Board of the International Press Institute (IPI) and IPI’s official representative in Turkey.
We are deeply disturbed by this move against not only a highly respected newspaper that remains one of Turkey’s last sources of critical news and information but also a representative of a major international human rights organisation.We are also extremely concerned that those detained are being held without access to legal counsel and without a clear indictment against them.
The closure of 15 pro-Kurdish media outlets, primarily covering the South East of the country, is part of an ongoing campaign to censor the Kurdish minority. It also represents a further attempt by the Turkish government to control all media coverage of the ongoing anti-terror operations in this region, and prevent independent media from investigating grave human rights abuses occurring there.
We condemn these arrests and closures as an extraordinary attack on press freedom, freedom of expression and the journalistic profession – unfortunately merely the latest example of such in Turkey. Our organisations stand in solidarity with Mr. Sabuncu, Mr. Gürsel and their colleagues, as do journalists around the world.
Prosecutors have said that Mr. Sabuncu, Mr. Gürsel and their colleagues are suspected of criminal collaboration with the outlawed Gülenist movement and the PKK. While we understand the need to take appropriate action against those responsible for July’s failed coup attempt, the arrests of Cumhuriyet staff and the sweeping closures of Kurdish media make it clear that Turkey’s current state of emergency is being abused to indiscriminately target any and all who criticise the government.
Indeed, during the first three months of the state of emergency, the Turkish authorities have closed approximately 165 media outlets. Nearly 100 journalists and writers have been arrested and at least 140 journalists are currently in detention, many of whom have no connection to either the Gülenist movement or the PKK.
We would welcome the opportunity to bring our concerns to you directly.
In the meantime, this coalition calls for the immediate release of Murat Sabuncu, Kadri Gürsel, their colleagues at Cumhuriyet and all other journalists jailed for exercising their right to freedom of expression. We also call on lawmakers in Turkey to end the abuse of emergency powers that are being used to suppress legitimate dissent, further crackdown on independent media and undermine what is left of the rule of law.
Thank you for your attention to this urgent matter.
The International Press Institute (IPI)
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ)
Article 19
Index on Censorship
The Ethical Journalism Network (EJN)
PEN International
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA)
The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO)
IFEX
Association of European Journalists (AEJ)
European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
CC: Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag Foreign embassies and consulates in Ankara and Istanbul
Sayın Cumhurbaşkanı,
Dünyanın önde gelen basın ve ifade özgürlüğü örgütlerinden oluşan uluslararası koalisyonun altta imzası bulunan üyeleri olarak, Cumhuriyet Gazetesi’ne yapılan operasyonun ve Kürtlere yönelik yayınlarıyla bilinen 15 medya kuruluşunun kapatılmasının ardından, acil toplantı talebimizi iletmek üzere bu mektubu yazıyoruz.
Polis, Cumhuriyet Gazetesi’nde çalışan en az bir düzine gazeteciyi, pazartesi günü evlerine baskın düzenleyerek gözaltına almıştır. Gözaltına alınanlar arasında, IPI’ın Yönetim Kurulu Üyesi ve Türkiye’deki resmi temsilcisi Sayın Kadri Gürsel ile IPI üyesi olan Cumhuriyet Genel Yayın Yönetmeni Murat Sabuncu da vardır.
Türkiye’de eleştirel haber ve yorumların yer alabildiği az sayıda kaynaktan biri olan Cumhuriyet’e yönelmekle birlikte, aynı zamanda önde gelen bir uluslararası insan hakları örgütünün temsilcisini de hedef alan bu hamle, bizde derin bir rahatsızlık yaratmıştır.
Özellikle de ülkenin güneydoğusundan haberler veren 15 medya kuruluşunun kapatılması, Kürt azınlığın sansürlenmesi için sürdürülen kampanyanın bir parçasıdır. Bu karar, Türk hükümetinin, bölgede süren terörle mücadele operasyonlarının haberleştirilmesinde tüm medyayı kontrol altına almak yönündeki çabasında yeni bir adımı temsil ediyor.
Bu gözaltı ve kapatma kararlarını, basın ve ifade özgürlüğü ile gazetecilik mesleğine yönelik olağanüstü bir taarruz olarak görüp kınıyoruz –ki bu durum ne yazık ki Türkiye için bir ilk değildir. Dünyanın dört bir yanındaki gazetecileri temsil eden örgütlerimiz, Sayın Gürsel, Sayın Sabuncu ve diğer meslektaşlarımızın yanındadır.
Savcılar, Sayın Gürsel ve Sabuncu’nun yasadışı örgütler olan Gülen hareketi ve PKK ile suç teşkil eden bir işbirliğinde olduğundan şüphelendiklerini söylüyorlar. 15 Temmuz darbe girişiminden sorumlu olanlara karşı uygun bir eylemin yapılması gerektiğine inanmakla birlikte, Cumhuriyet çalışanlarına yönelik gözaltılarla Kürtlere yönelik yayın yapan medya kuruluşlarının kapatılmasının bu kapsama girdiğini düşünmüyoruz. Bu gözaltılar, daha ziyade, Türkiye’deki mevcut OHAL yönetiminin, hükümeti eleştirmeye cüret eden herkese karşı ayrım gözetmeksizin kullanıldığını gösteriyor.
Gerçekten de, OHAL’in ilk üç ayı içinde Türk yetkililer yaklaşık 165 medya kuruluşunu kapatmış, 100 kadar gazeteci ve yazarı tutuklamış, birçoğu Gülen hareketi veya PKK ile hiçbir bağlantısı olmadığı halde en az 140 gazeteciyi gözaltına almıştır.
Endişelerimizi zât-ı âlilerinize doğrudan iletme fırsatını bulursak çok memnun oluruz.
Bu arada, uluslararası basın özgürlüğü koalisyonu olarak Sayın Gürsel, Sayın Sabuncu ve Cumhuriyet’teki diğer meslektaşlarımızla, ifade özgürlüğü hakkını kullandıkları için hapsedilen tüm gazetecilerin derhal salıverilmesi yönünde çağrı yapıyoruz. Türkiye’deki kanun yapıcıları, OHAL yetkilerini meşru muhalefeti susturmaya, özgür medyaya daha fazla baskı yapmaya ve tüm bunlardan arda kaldığı kadarıyla hukuk devletinin altını oymaya son vermeye davet ediyoruz.
Bu acil konudaki dikkatiniz için teşekkür ederiz.
Saygılarımızla,
The International Press Institute (IPI)
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ)
Article 19
Index on Censorship
The Ethical Journalism Network (EJN)
PEN International
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA)
The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO)
IFEX
Association of European Journalists (AEJ)
The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Een opmerking van VVD-parlementariër Han ten Broeke over “het nut van publicatie” OneWorld is gesignaleerd door het internationale project Index on Censorship. Ten Broeke vond het vreemd dat het (met overheidsgeld gesubsidieerde) OneWorld regelmatig opinies van activist Quinsy Gario promoot. Read the full article
To mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, members of Index on Censorship’s youth board have prepared a video statement outlining a particular case of impunity.
With over 800 journalists and media workers murdered around the world over the past decade, IFEX co-ordinates the global #NoImpunity campaign that aims to bring attention and action to the shocking conviction rate for attacks on media workers. Only one in ten of these crimes ends in punishment.
Today is the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. Since 2006, 827 journalists have been killed for their reporting. Nine out of 10 of these cases go unpunished.
Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom platform verified a number of reports of impunity since it began monitoring threats to press freedom across Europe in May 2014. Here are just five reports from three countries of concern: Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
“Impunity empowers those who orchestrate crimes and leaves victims feeling vulnerable and abandoned,” said Hannah Machlin, Index’s project officer for MMF. “What we are witnessing is a vicious cycle of unresolved crimes against journalists.”
Most recently, MMF reported that Sergey Dorovskoy, who the Lyublinski district court in Moscow recognised as orchestrating the murder of Novaya Gazeta journalist Igor Domnikov, received a 200,000 rubles (€2,860) fine but no jail time because the statute of limitations had passed. This small punishment was in compensation for “moral damages” to Domnikov’s wife.
From 1998-2000, Igor Domnikov headed Novaya Gazeta’s special projects department which ran investigations. He had published a series of articles about Dorovskoy’s alleged criminal activities and corruption.
On 19 February 2014, Vyacheslav Veremiy, a Ukrainian journalist for the newspaper, Vesti, died from injuries he sustained from a gunshot and a brutal beating. Veremiy was targeted while covering the anti-government Euromaidan protests in the country’s capital Kyiv. The two-year-old case has produced suspects but no prosecutions. The investigation remains open.
In Belarus, officials did not file a criminal case in the assault of TUT.by journalist Pavel Dabravolski, who said he was beaten on 25 January 2016 by police while filming another incident at a court facility. The officers involved testified that Dabravolski did not present a press card when requested and grabbed at them while shouting insults. Additionally, police claimed that Dabravolski was interfering with their duties.
Dabravolski captured the incident on his mobile phone, though the recording was not considered as part of the three-month investigation into the incident. According to the journalist, he was thrown to the ground and kicked by police. He was fined for charges of contempt of court and disobeying legal demands.
Index on Censorship calls for more to be done to ensure justice is served for crimes against journalists.
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