Journalist Ayşe Kara from Özgür Gün Tv Journalist was detained on June 27 as part of an investigation launched by the Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor's Office for the Democratic Society Congress (DTK). Kara was taken into custody by police while having dinner at a restaurant with a friend and was taken to the Provincial Security Directorate.

Journalist Ayşe Kara from Özgür Gün Tv Journalist was detained on June 27 as part of an investigation launched by the Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor's Office for the Democratic Society Congress (DTK). Kara was taken into custody by police while having dinner at a restaurant with a friend and was taken to the Provincial Security Directorate.

Nora Younis, the chief editor of news outlet Al-Mansa, was arrested and taken into custody on June 25. She was then interrogated for many hours and taken to Maadi secondary court. We followed the ordeal, spoke to Nora’s lawyer and reported on the entire incident. You can read here.

القاهرة، مصر، 26 يونيو — تم إلقاء القبض علي نورا يونس رئيسة تحرير موقع المنصة في مساء يوم الأربعاء 25 يونيو والتحقيق معها لعدة ساعات في محكمة المعادى الجزئية في اليوم التالي وتم إخلاء سبيلها بكفالة مالية. تابعنا القضية وتحدثنا مع محامي نورا وقمنا بعمل تقرير مبدئي عن الحادثة برمتها. يمكن قراءته هنا:

Gazeteci Sabiha Temizkan hakkında 2014 yılında yaptığı bir Twitter paylaşımı gerekçe gösterilerek “terör örgütü propagandası yapmak” suçlamasıyla açılan davanın ilk duruşması İstanbul 35. Ağır Ceza Mahkemesinde görüldü.

The trial of the lawsuit filed against journalist Sabiha Temizkan on charges of 'propagandizing a terrorist organization' was postponed.

Afrin operasyonu döneminde sosyal medya paylaşımları nedeniyle aralarında Gazeteci Sibel Hürtaş ve Hayri Demir ile İHD MYK Üyesi Nuray Çevirmen’in de bulunduğu 11 kişinin davası bugün görüldü. Bir sonraki duruşma 25 Kasım’a ertelendi.

The hearing of 11 people, including journalist Sibel Hürtaş and Hayri Demir and Human Rights Association Member Nuray Çevirmen, was held today. The next hearing was postponed to 25 November.

More than two dozen activists were detained on June 23rd after attempting to occupy the Municipal Services Building with last-minute demands for city leaders to drastically reduce the police department’s budget.

Gazetecilikte Kadın Koalisyonu Libya’da yaşamını yitirdikten sonra Manisa’da toprağa verilen MİT görevlisinin cenazesiyle ilgili haberler nedeniyle tutuklu olan Odatv muhabiri Hülya Kılınç ve meslektaşlarının 110 gün sonra hakim karşısına ilk defa çıktığı duruşmayı gözlemleyerek değerlendirdi.

The Coalition For Women In Journalism has been following the first hearing of the case against ODATV journalist Hülya Kılınç and her colleagues. Kılınç has spent the last 110 days in solitary confinement.

مصر، الجيزة، 24 يونيو، 2020- ألقى عناصر من الشرطة المصرية القبض على الصحفية نورا يونس، رئيس تحرير موقع المنصة مساء الأربعاء 24 يونيو. وقد قامت قوات الأمن بالتحفظ عليها بعد اقتحامهم لمقر الموقع -مدعين كونهم من مباحث المصنفات الفنية.

Nora Younis, the chief editor of news outlet Al-Manasa, was arrested by Egyptian police on Wednesday, June 24. She was taken into custody after her office was raided by the police - claiming to belong to the Artistic Products Police Department.

Zhang Zhan, a citizen journalist based in Shanghai, has been arrested after initially being detained for her coronavirus reporting. She has been held by the police in the municipality’s Pudong district on “public disturbance charges”.

The Coalition For Women In Journalism is deeply concerned and alarmed over the threats that Newsquest’s South Cumbria chief reporter Amy Fenton faces which forces her to flee her home.