Turkish Telecoms Intercept Name-Server Traffic Amid Blackout
News Comes After Turkish Government Blocked YouTube and Twitter By SAM SCHECHNER The Wall Street Journal Turkish telecom companies are intercepting traffic sent to public [more >>>]
Month: March 2014
Turkey: First Twitter, now YouTube – UN rights experts concerned at attempts to restrict access before elections
GENEVA (28 March 2014) – A group of United Nations independent experts expressed serious concern over the Government’s measures, taken in the context of forthcoming [more >>>]
Turkey: total blocking access to YouTube contrary to the case-law of the ECHR
“Just prior to key local elections, the total blocking of access to YouTube is a further worrying development regarding freedom of expression and is contrary [more >>>]
Turkey blocks YouTube days after Twitter crackdown
By Gul Tuysuz and Ivan Watson CNN The Turkish government banned YouTube on Thursday, less than a week after Ankara made a similar blackout of [more >>>]
EU Presents Progress Reports On Eastern Partnership States
By Rikard Jozwiak RFE/RL BRUSSELS — The European Commission has presented updates on the progress made by the countries in its Eastern Partnership program. The [more >>>]
Azerbaijan: The United Nations find the detention of Hilal Mammadov arbitrary; immediate release and compensation requested
Paris-Geneva, March 27, 2014. FIDH and OMCT, in the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, welcome the opinion rendered by [more >>>]
Turkey: YouTube Block Violates Free Expression
Twitter Remains Restricted Despite Court Ruling Human Rights Watch (Istanbul) – The Turkish government’s decision to close down YouTube by administrative order is a disastrous [more >>>]
Censorship of social media platforms must stop in Turkey, says OSCE media freedom representative
VIENNA, 27 March 2014 – By blocking access to social media platforms Turkey deliberately disregards the fundamental right to freedom of expression and freedom of [more >>>]
Two Prominent Azerbaijani Oppositionists Sentenced On Fabricated Charges
RFE/RL – An Azerbaijani regional court handed down prison terms on March 17 to two prominent opposition politicians for having simply been in the wrong [more >>>]
Azerbaijan: concern at announcement of jail sentence on two opposition politicians
Strasbourg, 21.03.2014 – Pedro Agramunt (Spain, EPP/CD) and Joseph Debono Grech (Malta, SOC), Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, [more >>>]