NUJ condemns journalists jailings: Judge rejects extradition demands
In an act of solidarity the NUJ has decided to adopt jailed journalist Ayşe Düzkan. Ayşe, is a member of the board of Disk-Is, one of the NUJ's sister unions in Turkey and has been defending herself for the last 18 months at various court hearings. Finally she was...
Murdered with impunity
It's some 6 weeks since the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist in what, on the basis of the evidence so far, was a state sponsored killing, which took place in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. To date the Saudi ruling elite, in the...
Academic report critical of media coverage of Labour’s anti-semitism debate
It's been a hot summer, especially for the Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn (pictured below), over his handling of the controversy concerning alleged anti-semitism in the party and its adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of...