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1/. #WorldPressFreedomDay is on 3 May
In 2016, @amnesty, @RSF_en, @article19europe, @hrw, @IndexCensorship, @CPJ_Eurasia & set up the @FreeTurkeyMedia campaign
For 5 years, journalists around the world have shown solidarity for their jailed colleagues.
In 2016, @amnesty, @RSF_en, @article19europe, @hrw, @IndexCensorship, @CPJ_Eurasia & set up the @FreeTurkeyMedia campaign
For 5 years, journalists around the world have shown solidarity for their jailed colleagues.
2/. "Journalists who used to observe court cases from the press gallery, now watch them from the dock"
Some of #Turkey's most respected journalists – equivalents of @camanpour @mehdirhasan @andersoncooper - are exiled, facing investigations or in jail. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
Some of #Turkey's most respected journalists – equivalents of @camanpour @mehdirhasan @andersoncooper - are exiled, facing investigations or in jail. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
3/. Stifling a nation’s media is a willful act of self-harm that we, as journalists, will keep writing about 'til the day they take away our pens
Let's mobilize for Turkish journos like we did when 3 @AlJazeera journos were jailed in Egypt in 2013 #WPFD2021 #WorldPressFreedomDay
Let's mobilize for Turkish journos like we did when 3 @AlJazeera journos were jailed in Egypt in 2013 #WPFD2021 #WorldPressFreedomDay
1/. "I will never see the world again"
In 2018 writer & journalist, Mehmet Altan, was sentenced to life-imprisonment in #Turkey on baseless terrorism charges
Tmw the European Court of Human Rights will pass judgment his conviction #FreeTurkeyMedia
3 May = #WorldPressFreedomDay
In 2018 writer & journalist, Mehmet Altan, was sentenced to life-imprisonment in #Turkey on baseless terrorism charges
Tmw the European Court of Human Rights will pass judgment his conviction #FreeTurkeyMedia
3 May = #WorldPressFreedomDay
2/. This cartoon👆is by the amazing @channeldraw
In previous years, to mark #WorldPressFreedomDay, @amnesty invited people to tweet their cartoons using the #FreeTurkeyMedia hashtag
Turkey is one of the world's biggest jailer of journalists. #WPFD21
In previous years, to mark #WorldPressFreedomDay, @amnesty invited people to tweet their cartoons using the #FreeTurkeyMedia hashtag
Turkey is one of the world's biggest jailer of journalists. #WPFD21
3/. Some more #FreeTurkeyMedia cartoons👇
Why not submit one yourself?
Thanks to cartoonists @MartinRowson @jonesycartoons @atiqshahid2 @Banxcartoons @BellBelltoons @procartoonists @marshallcartoon @Schism_Schasm @iainoverton @CRNetInt @CartooningPeace
Why not submit one yourself?
Thanks to cartoonists @MartinRowson @jonesycartoons @atiqshahid2 @Banxcartoons @BellBelltoons @procartoonists @marshallcartoon @Schism_Schasm @iainoverton @CRNetInt @CartooningPeace
