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Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of September 17, 2017
September 18, 2017 12:52 PM ET
Trial begins against shuttered Turkish daily Zaman The trial of journalists, staff, and shareholders of the pro-Fethullah Gülen daily, Zaman, and the paper's subsidiaries began yesterday, the online newspaper T24 reported....
CPJ calls on Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to reaffirm his commitment to ensuring journalists' safety
September 18, 2017 9:00 AM ET
CPJ calls on Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to publically denounce the recent SBU actions against the press and reaffirming his commitment to ensuring journalists' safety.
Photojournalist charged with terrorism in Turkey
September 15, 2017 3:39 PM ET
New York, September 15, 2017--The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Turkish authorities to immediately release photojournalist Çağdaş Erdoğan, and drop the anti-state charges against him. An Istanbul court on September 13 formally charged Erdoğan with terrorism, according to the volunteer journalist collective 140journos....
Independent journalist Yulia Latynina flees Russia following attacks
September 11, 2017 3:12 PM ET
New York, September 11, 2017--Russian journalist Yulia Latynina, who writes a column for the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta and hosts a weekly radio show on Ekho Moskvy, has fled Russia after a series of attacks, according to local and international reports. In the latest incident on September 3, attackers...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of September 10, 2017
September 11, 2017 11:21 AM ET
Court orders four Cumhuriyet managers and journalists to remain in custody for trial A Turkish court remanded four members of the Cumhuriyet newspaper yesterday who are on trial for terrorism-related charges, according to reports from their employer and Reuters....
Journalists on trial in France after calling Azerbaijan a dictatorship
September 7, 2017 3:58 PM ET
New York, September 7, 2017--The French justice ministry should dismiss criminal defamation charges the government of Azerbaijan brought against journalists Elise Lucet and Laurent Richard, and allow the pair to continue their work without obstruction, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Kazakh editor convicted of money laundering, banned from journalism
September 7, 2017 12:33 PM ET
New York, September 7, 2017--A Kazakh court today handed down a suspended prison sentence to Zhanbolat Mamay, editor of the independent newspaper Sayasi kalam/Tribuna, for charges of money laundering, and banned him from working as a journalist for three years, according to media reports. Mamay said he plans to...
Separatists in east Ukraine 'sentence' blogger to 14 years in captivity
September 6, 2017 5:34 PM ET
Pro-Russia separatists in the rebel stronghold of Luhansk, east Ukraine, took Eduard Nedelyayev, a Ukrainian blogger, captive in November last year, according to local media reports. The group claims authority over a region it has named the Luhansk People's Republic (LNR)....
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of September 3, 2017
September 6, 2017 12:42 PM ET
Columnist's passport returned Turkish authorities on September 7 returned Aslı Erdoğan, a former advisory board member of the shuttered pro-Kurdish daily Özgür Gündem and a frequent columnist, her passport, according to the Hürriyet Daily News website, which cites Erdoğan's lawyer....