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1/. #WorldPressFreedomDay  is on 3 May

In 2016, @amnesty, @RSF_en, @article19europe, @hrw, @IndexCensorship, @CPJ_Eurasia & set up the @FreeTurkeyMedia campaign

For 5 years, journalists around the world have shown solidarity for their jailed colleagues.
2/. "Journalists who used to observe court cases from the press gallery, now watch them from the dock"

Some of #Turkey's most respected journalists – equivalents of @camanpour @mehdirhasan @andersoncooper - are exiled, facing investigations or in jail. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
3/. Stifling a nation’s media is a willful act of self-harm that we, as journalists, will keep writing about 'til the day they take away our pens

Let's mobilize for Turkish journos like we did when 3 @AlJazeera journos were jailed in Egypt in 2013 #WPFD2021 #WorldPressFreedomDay
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1/. "I will never see the world again"

In 2018 writer & journalist, Mehmet Altan, was sentenced to life-imprisonment in #Turkey on baseless terrorism charges

Tmw the European Court of Human Rights will pass judgment his conviction #FreeTurkeyMedia

3 May = #WorldPressFreedomDay Image
2/. This cartoon👆is by the amazing @channeldraw

In previous years, to mark #WorldPressFreedomDay, @amnesty invited people to tweet their cartoons using the #FreeTurkeyMedia hashtag

Turkey is one of the world's biggest jailer of journalists. #WPFD21
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1/. In February, I was in #Turkey for the verdict in the trial of 2 of my ex-@amnesty colleagues & 9 other human rights defenders, who face up to 15 years in jail on absurd
charges. But the verdict was postponed.

Next Friday, they will be back in court.
2/. Due to COVID, we won’t be there next week, but others will.

It’s no coincidence that as human rights violations in a country increase, so do the attacks on those people who defend them.

In times of repression, their becomes more vital than ever: more vital & more dangerous. Image
3/. Join @amnesty on 3 July & all this week as we COUNTDOWN TO JUSTICE & demand their acquittal

11 human rights activists

1158 days in pretrial detention

2.5 years since arrests

2m people demand for justice

7 days ‘til the verdict
#FreeRightsDefenders
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