Azerbaijan: Stop Harassing Rights Defender
Human Rights Watch Hollande, Council of Europe Leadership Should Speak Out (Berlin) – Azerbaijani authorities are harassing and engaging in oppressive tactics against a prominent [more >>>]
Freedom of expression, assembly and association deteriorating in Azerbaijan
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights releases his observations on the human rights situation in the country Strasbourg, 23 April 2014 – “Freedom of [more >>>]
Turkey’s Electoral Dictatorship
By TIMUR KURAN* Project Syndicate DURHAM – In the run-up to Turkey’s municipal elections on March 30, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared that the [more >>>]
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 >>>]
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 >>>]