Last year, the American news website, Gawker, released internal documents from within an outsourcing firm which employs “content moderators” to screen content posted on Facebook. Gawker obtained the documents from an employee of the firm, Amine Derkaoui, a 21-year old Moroccan …
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Posted in Call to Actions, Censorship, Free speech, Turkey | 1 CommentAn independent presidential candidate was attacked in Downtown Erbil on Friday in Southern Kurdistan. Dr. Kamal Said Qadir tweeted, @kamalsaidqadir “A peaceful gathering will be held today at 5 pm in [the] center of Erbil-Kurdistan region to discuss the imposed …
Posted in Activism, Censorship, Free speech, Iraq, Kurdistan | 2 CommentsOn January 12th, 2005 the Turkish Embassy in Denmark filed a complaint against the Kurdish TV-channel Roj TV to the Danish Radio and Television Board for being a mouthpiece for the Kurdish rebel group, PKK. The board rejected the embassy’s …
Posted in Censorship, Free speech, Media, Trials, Turkey | 5 CommentsKurdish Journalist Hamdiye Çiftçi has been in trouble ever since she covered the police violence that 14-year-old Cüneyt Ertuş was exposed to in 2008. Having been detained for 2 years within the scope of KCK operations, Çiftçi has been sentenced …
Posted in Censorship, Free speech, Media, Prisoners of Conscience, Turkey | 1 CommentMütha Çetin, a correspondent working for Dicle News Agency (mostly covers news about the Kurdish issue) has been detained in Istanbul, Fırat News Agency (ANF) reported. Çetin has been detained by police officers for an unknown reason while trying to …
Posted in Censorship, Journalists, Turkey, Women | Comments Off on Kurdish correspondent detained in IstanbulOn World Press Freedom Day the International Federation of Journalists put forward a statement calling out the worst jailers of journalists – China, Iran, Eritrea, and Turkey. “The only thing they (the journalists) are guilty of is fulfilling their professional duty as …
Posted in Campaigns, Censorship, Free speech, Journalists, Turkey | Comments Off on Turkey named one of the “Worst Jailers of Journalists” on Press Freedom DayIn January 2012 the City Court in Denmark ruled that the Kurdish TV-station ROJ TV from February 7, 2008 to February 10, 2010 had acted as a mouthpiece for PKK, a Kurdish rebel group fighting for Kurdish rights in Turkey. …
Posted in Censorship, Culture, European Union, Free speech, Journalists, Kurdish Human Rights Project, Media, Trials, Turkey | Comments Off on Interview with ROJ TV director: ROJ TV is facing an international conspiracy