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Project Exile: Turkish journalist still fearful in Germany

Turkish journalist Zübeyde Sari began her career in 2009. By 2018, following President Erdogan’s crack down on the media, she was forced to flee.

Project Exile: Reporter escaped Russia after beating, burns

by Connor O'Halloran | 10 Jul 19

Fatima Tlisova didn’t make it easy for the Russian government to get rid of her. As a reporter covering Russia’s fight against Chechen separatists in what was known as the Second Chechen war in the early 2000s, she was kidnapped, beaten and had her fingertips burned with cigarettes by Russian security forces.

Project Exile: Criticising Kurdish referendum forces journalist to leave Iraq

by Franziska Stadlmayer | 09 Jul 19

Despite Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region’s close ties to the U.S. and billions of dollars in foreign investment, Iraqi Kurdistan is no easy place to be a journalist. Kamal Chomani’s experience is just one example.

Project Exile: Moroccan journalist Hicham Mansouri flees after being stripped and jailed

by Gaelle Fournier | 01 Jul 19

Efforts to prosecute or intimidate journalists are not unusual in Morocco, and as Hicham Mansouri’s story demonstrates, the government of King Mohammed VI can be both cruel and creative in its efforts to silence dissenting voices.

Project Exile: Tajikistan harasses reporter into exile

by Kyle LaHucik | 26 Jun 19

“I knew that they have just one goal: they want to see me out of journalism.”

Project Exile: Turkish journalist lost home and family

by Lara Cumming | 11 Jun 19

“One thing is broken: my heart.”

Global Journalist: Local news in global decline

by Index on Censorship | 10 Jun 19

Index magazine editor Rachael Jolley joins Global Journalist to discuss the decline of local news all around the world and what this means for democracy.