Turkey - RWB and four other NGOs to jointly condemn online censorship in Turkey

Reporters without borders

Read in Turkish / Türkçe Reporters Without Borders, the Turkish Association of Journalists (TGC), the Alternative Informatics Association (Alternatif Bilisim Dernegi), Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch will give a joint news conference in Istanbul on 4 September about Internet censorship in Turkey and the resulting restrictions on freedom of information. The five human rights groups are using the 2-5 September Internet Governance Forum in Istanbul as the peg for this news (...)

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