Journalists and academics bear the brunt of the massive crackdown on freedom of expression in Turkey. Scores of them are currently subject to criminal investigations or behind bars. This website is dedicated to tracking the legal process against them.
At least nine journalists in four provinces arrested while covering protests against government-appointed trustees; wri...
JinNews Kurdish editor Roza Metina arrested; 5 journalists to stand trial for covering 2019 demonstration in Mardin; Bi...
Academic Bülent Şık’s conviction over 2018 article series overturned; BirGün editor charged with “insulting pub...
Doğan Ergün, Sinan Aygül sentenced; Mehmet Altan files case against judges who refused to implement top court’s ju...
Prosecutor demands sentence for video activist Oktay İnce; Mehmet Baransu’s request for recusal of judges in “Tara...
Barış Pehlivan imprisoned for fifth time; Mehmet Şah Oruç suffers medical emergency in prison; Hayri Demir faces ne...
Rojin Altay sentenced to prison at first hearing; Bilal Güldem threatened by AKP and HÜDA-PAR affiliated accounts; bo...
Constitutional Court rules for “rights violations” in the access block decision for P24’s news item; Kibriye Evre...
Tolga Şardan imprisoned pending trial; six journalists under investigation, two of them detained for “spreading fals...