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In Turkey the right to free speech is being lost
by Mehdi Hasan https://www.legal-project.org/2659/in-turkey-the-right-to-free-speech-is-being-lost Excerpt: Which country in the world currently imprisons more journalists than any other? The People's Republic of China? Nope. Iran? Wrong again. The rather depressing answer is the Republic of Turkey, where nearly 100 journalists are behind bars, according to the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Yes, that's right: modern, secular, western-oriented Turkey, with its democratically elected government, has locked away more members of the press than China and Iran combined. Read the complete original version of this item... Related Topics: Blasphemy in the Muslim World receive the latest by email: subscribe to the legal project's free mailing list Note: The content of external articles does not necessarily reflect the views of The Legal Project. |
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