Independent blogger and human rights advocate Huynh Thuc Vy suffered a beating and strangling by prison guards.

Prominent Kurdish journalist and academic Nagihan Akarsel was shot multiple times and killed in broad daylight in Sulaymaniyah city, Northern Iraq.

Yirmi uluslararası medya özgürlüğü, ifade özgürlüğü ve gazeteci örgütü, 4 Ekim'de TBMM Genel Kurulu'na sunulan "dezenformasyon ve yalan haber" yasa tasarısına karşı oy kullanmaları çağrısında bulundu.

Twenty two international media freedom, freedom of expression and journalists’ organisations call on Members of Parliament (MPs) to vote against the bill on “disinformation and fake news.”

Zehra Ömeroğlu, a cartoonist known for her work in independent, satirical magazines such as Bayan Yanı and Leman, is facing obscenity charges for her tongue-in-cheek pandemic-related cartoon.

We are extremely disturbed by the growing violence against women journalists in Iran, who are one of the primary target of arrests and detentions.