Turkish Courts Slam Internet Curbs; Challenge Erdogan's Web Censorship

Rebuffing his government's efforts to censor parts of the Internet, Turkey's highest court Wednesday rejected Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's block of Twitter, saying it violates freedom of expression and individual rights. The ruling comes in one of two legal challenges to the government's ban on certain social media sites. In a binding decision, the constitutional court ordered the government to "do what's necessary" to lift the ban. It's not...

© La Voix de l'Amérique - mercredi 2 avril 2014