Turkey: the biggest prison in the world for journalists
“Turkey is again the world’s biggest prison for professional journalists, with members of the press spending more than a year in prison before trial and long jail sentences becoming the…
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Macron bans Russian media from his campaign
Russia has accused French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron of discriminating against its media organisations after the centrist’s campaign banned Russian news outlets from his events, Euronews reports. In Paris, a…
Erdogan rejects EU criticism of journalist arrests
Financial Times: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey warned the EU on Monday to mind its own business over his government’s arrest of high-profile media figures as the lira neared record…