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May 3. World Press Freedom Day hosted in Jakarta

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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

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TURKEY BANS WIKIPEDIA

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Saturday, 29th April, early morning, Wikipedia “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit” is blocked in Turkey

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Kurdish Political Prisoner’s Hunger Strike Ends after 63 Days

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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.”

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“NOW LAWLESS” – TURKEY INDICTED AGAIN

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The report “Turkey’s descent into arbitrariness: The end of rule of law”, slammed the Turkish state for its abuse of human rights

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Death of Mayakovsky

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, Russian Soviet poet, playwright, actor and revolutionary

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ON A DAY THIS WEEK, in April, 1930

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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

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KURDISH HUNGER STRIKES. INTENSIFY DESPITE HOPES OF DIALOGUE

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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

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Eritrea: ‘Disappeared’ prisoner of conscience, Dawit Isaak, wins World press freedom prize, 2017

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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

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Turkish Court Curtails Writer’s Travel

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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

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TURKEY HUNGER STRIKES: DIALOGUE BEGINS

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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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