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...
by admin | Aug 21, 2013 | Campaigns, censorship, freedom of information, international
This week has shown the extent to which the state will go to stifle our right to know. Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years, David Miranda, partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, held for nearly 9 hours at Heathrow airport under UK anti-terror laws, his...
by admin | Sep 30, 2010 | censorship, international, Islam, media freedom
In September 2010, I attended a seminar ‘From Munk to Mohammed – Freedom of the Press, Censorship, Self-Censorship and Press Ethics’ at the Kaj Munk Research Centre at Aalbourg University, Denmark. Topics discussed at these seminars always relate to the Danish priest...