by admin | Feb 1, 2015 | international, media freedom, Turkey
It is now over a year since the Odatv journalists had faced their accuser in court (the last hearing was on 12 December 2013). The case, due to be held on 1 April 2014 was postponed. Although reforms to the courts resulted in the case being held under the new set up,...
by admin | Dec 15, 2014 | international, media freedom, Turkey
The government-orchestrated crackdown on independent critical media outlets in Turkey took a turn for the worse yesterday (14 December 2014) with dawn raids on Turkey’s largest newspaper Zaman and popular national TV network Samanyolu TV that led to the...
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,...
