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Red Pepper Editors Bailed - Uganda Latest

Daily Monitor (Uganda) reports that eight Red Pepper editors and senior managers arrested in November - on charges including publication of information prejudicial to security, libel and offensive communication - have been granted bail pending further judicial proceedings.

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2017-12-20 12:42

Golden Pen of Freedom Awarded to Turkish Journalist Can Dündar

The Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom award of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), has been awarded to Turkish journalist and former editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet newspaper, Can Dündar.

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2017-06-05 11:49

Rights groups and cartoonists ask Iranian President Rouhani to help free artist Atena Farghadani

WAN-IFRA and global freedom of expression organisations have written to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to free cartoonist Atena Faraghdani who is in prison for publishing a symbolic cartoon online. Atena has been sentenced to 12 years 9 months in prison, awaiting final verdict from the court of appeal.

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2016-02-26 17:05

Turkey must allow supporters to meet with imprisoned journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül

Leading international free expression and press freedom groups condemn government’s refusal to allow supporters to visit pair jailed for their reporting, call for their release

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2016-01-27 13:28

Drop All Charges Against Moroccan Journalist Ali Anouzla – Let Him Go Free, Once and For All

Human rights and freedom of expression groups, amongst them WAN-IFRA, are calling on the Moroccan authorities to drop all charges against journalist and editor Ali Anouzla and to end their judicial pursuit of him and his news publication.

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2016-01-20 21:23

Release Journalists Somaru Nag and Santosh Yadav

WAN-IFRA joined international freedom of expression groups in denouncing the continued detention journalists journalists Somaru Nag and Santosh Yadav in Chhattisgarh, India.

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2016-01-20 16:40

WAN-IFRA Board Press Freedom Resolution - Turkey

The Board of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), meeting in Paris on 12th December 2015, calls for renewed global solidarity with the Turkish press in the wake of continuing attacks and the government’s hard-line stance against independent, free media.

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2015-12-12 14:08

World’s Press Condemns Attack on Journalist and Denounces Assault on Press Freedom in Turkey

WAN-IFRA and the World Editors Forum have condemned a violent assault on a journalist as well as a series of attacks against Daily Hürriyet, just the latest in a string of recent assaults on press freedom in Turkey.

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2015-10-02 15:40

Protest Campaign - Turkey, 2 October 2015

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2015-10-02 14:52

World’s Press Calls on Turkey to Release Mohammed Ismael Rasool, Respect the Right to Freedom of Expression

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum welcome the release of VICE News reporters Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury, but calls on the authorities to ensure their Turkish colleague Mohammed Ismael Rasool is immediately released and the charges against him are dropped.

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2015-09-05 11:11

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