by admin | Aug 15, 2020 | Campaigns, censorship, international, media freedom, Press, whistle blowing
The US government has made a late request to have Julian Assange extradited based on a new indictment, prosecutor Claire Dobbin told Westminster magistrates’ court at yesterday’s hearing. Washington is seeking to expand the charges against him, including by...
by admin | Jul 31, 2020 | Campaigns, censorship, international, media freedom, Press, whistle blowing
Julian Assange appeared at a further administrative hearing at Westminster Crown Court, London on 27 July via video link, the first time since 7 April when he was last seen in court. The conference call was organised after delay, due to failure of Belmarsh prison to...
by admin | Jul 6, 2020 | Campaigns, censorship, international, media freedom, whistle blowing
It was Julian Assange’s 49th birthday on 3 July. He did not have much to celebrate being incarcerated in in the high-security HMP Belmarsh for more than a year facing extradition to the United States where he has been indicted under the Espionage Act for Wikileaks’...
by admin | Sep 22, 2015 | censorship, international, media freedom, Turkey
Increasing attacks on journalists, jailings, limits on collective bargaining, increasing restrictions on the right to report, more prosecutions and less press freedom. These were some of the key issues discussed at a conference held in Istanbul on 17/18 September,...
by admin | Oct 2, 2014 | censorship, media freedom, Turkey
Although there are still 23 journalists and media workers behind bars in Turkey, the lowest number for many years, journalists and other media activists are still being targeted by the authorities, the steering committee of the European Federation of Journalists heard...
by admin | May 31, 2014 | censorship, media freedom, Turkey
On 30 May I contacted a journalist on the Turkish newspaper Zaman offering a comment on the decision of the Financial Times to throw out the paper’s journalist from reporting a speech being given in the paper’s London office by Turkey’s finance minster Mehmet Şimşek...