The seizure of Zaman returns Turkey to the politics of revenge: Is the EU prepared to put expediency above principle?
Zaman: The murder of a newspaper
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CATEGORY: Mapping Media Freedom
Mapping Media Freedom: Week in focus
Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media
Turkey silences independent broadcaster
Index on Censorship condemns Türksat’s decision to drop independent broadcaster IMC TV’s signal.
Turkey: War on journalists rages on
The ongoing deterioration in Turkey’s press freedom has been well documented by Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project since its launch
Turkey: Court rules journalists’ rights were violated
Index on Censorship welcomes the release of journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül. The charges against them must be dropped.
The Netherlands: Journalists barred from public asylum debates
Mapping Media Freedom correspondent Mitra Nazar explores the trend toward barring journalists from public debates about housing asylum seekers
Mapping Media Freedom: Week in focus
Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project identifies an abundance of verified threats, violations and limitations
Swift changes to media landscape set Poland further down the partisan road
Poland has undergone rapid changes since the right-wing Law and Justice Party (PiS) won the overall majority in the Sejm
Slovenia: How a neo-Nazi exposé almost landed a journalist in jail
Mapping Media Freedom correspondent Mitra Nazar speaks to journalist Anuska Delic about the article that almost landed her in prison for three years
Portugal: Waves of layoffs hollow out press
The closing months of 2015 were enough to prove that Portuguese journalism is facing a serious challenge from which it probably won’t emerge the same
Mapping Media Freedom – a major Index on Censorship project and a joint undertaking with the European Federation of Journalists and Reporters Without Borders, partially funded by the European Commission – covers 42 countries, including all EU member states, plus Bosnia, Iceland, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Turkey, Albania along with Ukraine, Belarus and Russia in (added in April 2015), and Azerbaijan (added in February 2016). The platform was launched in May 2014 and has recorded over 3,000 incidents threatening media freedom.
Violations, censorship and needs of threatened journalists in Europe
Journalists and media workers are confronting relentless pressure simply for doing their job. Mapping Media Freedom identifies threats, violations and limitations faced by members of the press throughout European Union member states, candidates for entry and neighbouring countries. Learn more.