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Back to homepageMay 3. World Press Freedom Day hosted in Jakarta
This year, World Press Freedom Day will be hosted in Jakarta, Indonesia from the 1st to 4 May. The theme: Critical Minds for Critical Times
Read MoreTURKEY BANS WIKIPEDIA
Saturday, 29th April, early morning, Wikipedia “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit” is blocked in Turkey
Read MoreKurdish Political Prisoner’s Hunger Strike Ends after 63 Days
Rosa Gilbert: “As political prisoners continue to suffer in Turkish jails, silence amounts to complicity with the newly empowered fascist regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Be a voice against silence.”
Read More“NOW LAWLESS” – TURKEY INDICTED AGAIN
The report “Turkey’s descent into arbitrariness: The end of rule of law”, slammed the Turkish state for its abuse of human rights
Read MoreDeath of Mayakovsky
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, Russian Soviet poet, playwright, actor and revolutionary
Read MoreON A DAY THIS WEEK, in April, 1930
The 14th April 1930, Leningrad’s Krasnaya Gazeta (The Red Gazette) reported that Soviet “poet-tribune” Vladimir (Volodya) Mayakovsky, had committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart
Read MoreKURDISH HUNGER STRIKES. INTENSIFY DESPITE HOPES OF DIALOGUE
there is now serious concern that after an unbelievable 54 days on hunger strike (as of April 9th) a number of prisoners are passing the point of no return
Read MoreEritrea: ‘Disappeared’ prisoner of conscience, Dawit Isaak, wins World press freedom prize, 2017
Post Views: 110 Eritrean writer and journalist and Swedish citizen (for all the good it does him) Dawit Isaak, has been awarded the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2017. The $25,000 award is named after Guillermo Cano Isaza, a
Read MoreTurkish Court Curtails Writer’s Travel
n the same month that a Turkish Court sentenced Zehra Doğan, artist and journalist, to almost 3 years in prison for a painting, an Istanbul court has reaffirmed the travel ban on writer Asli Erdoğan in the ongoing war against Freedom of Expression the Turkish State is currently engaged in
Read MoreTURKEY HUNGER STRIKES: DIALOGUE BEGINS
Dialogue has begun between prison authorities and the hunger-striking Kurdish prisoners held in in Edirne High Security Prison in the northwestern province.
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