Kati Marton

Kati Marton, an author of eight books, is a board member and former chair of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Blog | Turkey

Turkey, jailer of journalists, hedges bets on democracy

More reporters are jailed in Turkey than in any other country in the world. According to CPJ's recent survey, at least 61 are imprisoned directly for their work, representing the second biggest media crackdown in the 27 years we have been documenting such records. (Only Turkey itself has rivaled the extent of this crackdown, when it jailed 78 journalists in 1996.) In the country hailed as the model moderate Islamic republic, how is this possible?

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Blog | Russia

Mission Journal: Visiting Mikhail Beketov

By Kati Marton/CPJ Board Member

In Moscow, progress is often followed by heartbreak. So it was on the day after our meeting with Russia's top investigator, when we hit the wall of Russia's dysfunctional criminal justice system.

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