Join Index on Censorship and others for a vigil outside the Turkish Embassy in London to protest the detention of journalists and writers in Turkey.
CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
“Don’t Buy The Sun” campaign gathers momentum
One year on from the exonerating Hillsborough inquest verdict, a campaign has gathered momentum. Its message is simple: “Don’t Buy The Sun”.
Mapping Media Freedom: Russian investigative journalist dies after two brutal assaults
Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout Europe
International community rallies in support of Hungary’s Central European University
As a new law passed by Hungarian government threatens the existence of Central European University in Budapest, 70,000 people marched in protest
Serbia: Media freedom worsening as Serbs take to the streets
A few days before the 2 April 2017 Serbian presidential elections, a picture was posted on Twitter that caused an unexpected storm
Yavuz Baydar: Turkey’s crippled and tarnished journalism found space to breathe
With the hollowing out of the Turkish media landscape in recent years, honest coverage on the night of the historic referendum was rare
Investigate corruption allegations linking PACE and Azerbaijan
We, representatives of international and national non-governmental organisations, issue this appeal prior to a discussion of the investigation into...
Turkey’s post-referendum freedom of expression
A guest panel shared their thoughts on President Erdogan, polarisation and free speech following the referendum result in Turkey
#IndexAwards2017: Journalists from the Maldives and Serbia describe attacks on press freedom
Thousands of miles separate the Maldives from Serbia, but Zaheena Rasheed and Stevan Dojcinovic describe similar attacks on press freedom at a panel discussion at London
Ramazan Ölçen: Kurdish journalist detained for working at Apê Musa’s newspaper
“Of course my family are worried,” says Ramazan Ölçen, who was detained for owning the copyrights to what was Turkey’s only Kurdish-language daily newspaper