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Freed on parole

Editor of Kurdish newspaper released after two years in custody

Published on 7 August 2012Read

Joint letter

Immediately and unconditionally end the legal proceedings against Azerbaijani lawyer Intigam Aliyev

Published on 26 July 2012Read

A few more releases in KCK trial, next hearing scheduled for 1 October

Reporters Without Borders regrets that few of the 205 defendants on trial for alleged links with the armed separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (...)

Published on 16 July 2012 Read

Four journalists facing possible jail terms for alleged links to banned Kurdish group

The trial of well-known publisher and journalist Ragip Zarakolu and three other journalists – Songül Karatagna, Kazim Seker and Hasan Özgünes – for (...)

Published on 2 July 2012 Read

As Oda TV trial drags on, one journalist freed, four others begin 16th month in detention

Reporters Without Borders is outraged that only one of the five Oda TV journalists still in detention, reporter Müyesser Ugur, was released during (...)

Published on 21 June 2012 Read

Two Turkish journalists released but more than 37 Syrian journalists still held

Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that two Turkish journalists who were captured while making a documentary in northwestern Syria (...)

Published on 12 May 2012 Read

Two investigative journalists threatened on Twitter

Read in Turkish / Türkçe Reporters Without Borders is very disturbed by a message posted on Twitter on the night of 16 March about an alleged plot (...)

Published on 19 March 2012 Read

Four journalists released but fight goes on for dozens still held

Read in Turkish / Türkçe Reporters Without Borders warmly welcomes the release on bail of the investigative journalists Ahmet Sik and Nedim Sener (...)

Published on 13 March 2012 Read

A year in prison for no reason

Reporters Without Borders reiterates its call for the immediate release of investigative journalists Ahmet Sik and Nedim Sener, who complete (...)

Published on 3 March 2012 Read

After victory for free speech in France, Turkey’s turn next?

Reporters Without Borders hails yesterday’s ruling by the Constitutional Council that a proposed law punishing the “denial of legally recognized (...)

Published on 29 February 2012 Read

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Kazakhstan - 10 August 2012

Second opposition journalist suffers attempt on his life

Kazakhstan - 9 August 2012

Lukpan Akhmedyarov Named 2012 Winner of Peter Mackler Award

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He is the editor of Erk, the last opposition newspaper in Uzbekistan until it was banned by the authorities in 1993, and he was jailed on 18 August 1999 in the wave of repression after the failed assassination attempt on President Islam Karimov in Tashkent on 16 February 1999.

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