by admin | Nov 24, 2014 | Europe, international, unions
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) annual meeting was held in Moscow last week and it was my first visit to Russia since the dramatic and turbulent days of Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s. Then one Rouble was worth one Pound Sterling. Now 100 Roubles are...
by admin | Apr 3, 2014 | international, Israel, Vanunu, whistle blowing
In August, it was reported that Avigdor Feldman, Mordechai’s lawyer, had finally managed to lodge an appeal against Mordechai’s continuing restrictions and the surveillance he was subjected to. However, it was not until after a couple of postponements...
by admin | Jan 4, 2014 | international
On Friday 3 January, I attended the funeral in Bristol of Richard Hart. A Caribbean activist, researcher and writer, Richard served as attorney general in the Bishop government in Grenada in 1983, until the brutal invasion of the country by the US in October of that...
by admin | Sep 13, 2013 | Campaigns, international, media freedom, Turkey, unions
Justice and press freedom in Turkey suffered further setbacks on 11 September, when an Istanbul court decided that the case against journalist and writer Profesor Yalçin Kücük should be adjourned until 12 December. Kücük, one of the defendants in the Ergenekon trial,...
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 | Dec 30, 2012 | international, media freedom, Turkey, unions
Soner Yalcin, international journalist and owner of Odatv news website, was released from jail on 27 December. His release came after the 15th hearing of the Odatv trial at the Judgement Palace in Istanbul. However, he can’t leave Turkey, and he will have to report...
