“I’ve coined the term Erdocracy for the anti-democratic, anti-secularist regime Erdoğan is building in Turkey. He had recently demanded a law that would allow detention possible based on ‘reasonable suspicion.'”
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Nearly 800 writers, poets, journalists, translators, and editors are currently in prison around the world. Approximately one tenth of them are in Turkey, where an Anti-Terror Law has been broadly applied to target writers. Here PEN Turkey president explains and names the writers under threat.
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This week: the case against Aaron Swartz, Somalia’s dangerous reputation for journalists, and Beijing’s propaganda workers to start microblogs.
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