MEA

April 11, 2025

Turkey’s Student and Journalist Trials Spark Outrage Over Freedoms

April 11, 2025, Iraq/Turkey – In April 2025, Turkish courts began prosecuting 189 individuals—mostly university students and journalists—arrested during mass protests sparked by the detention of […]
April 10, 2025

Leading Turkish Journalists Arrested Over Alleged Blackmail Amid Political Tensions

April 10, 2025 – Turkey –  On April 10, 2025, two high-profile Turkish investigative journalists, Timur Soykan of BirGün and Murat Ağırel of Cumhuriyet, were detained […]
April 10, 2025

Global Media Body Stands in Solidarity with Journalists Facing Oppression

April 10, 2025 – Palestine/Israel –  In May 2025, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) publicly expressed solidarity with journalists worldwide who are facing oppression, […]
April 10, 2025

Iranian Journalist Vida Rabbani Released on Conditional Parole After 32 Months in Evin Prison

April 10, 2025 – Iran –  On April 9, 2025, Iranian journalist and human rights defender Vida Rabbani was conditionally released from Tehran’s Evin Prison after […]
April 9, 2025

Israeli Airstrike on Journalist Sparks Outcry Over Press Freedom Violations

April 09, 2025 – Palestine –  In an April 2025 article, Palestinian journalist Tareq S. Hajjaj strongly refuted Israeli military claims that his colleague, journalist Hassan […]
April 9, 2025

Journalist Burned Alive in Israeli Strike as Gaza Becomes Deadliest Zone for Press

April 09, 2025 – Palestine –  On April 7, 2025, an Israeli airstrike struck a tent sheltering journalists near the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, […]
April 9, 2025

Turkish Courts Uphold Detention of Journalists Over Erdoğan Insult Charges

April 09, 2025 – Sweden/Turkey –  In April 2025, Turkish courts upheld the pretrial detention of two journalists—Swedish reporter Kaj Joakim Medin and Turkish broadcaster Sedef […]