TEHRAN, March 8 - A court on Thursday convicted a musician-turned-newspaper columnist of "knowingly and willingly" aiding the network led by U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen and sentenced him to three years and one month in prison, Turkey's state-run news agency reported.
TEHRAN, February 16 - A court on Friday sentenced six journalists and media employees accused of involvement in Turkey's 2016 failed coup attempt to life prison terms, the country's state-run news agency reported.
TEHRAN, January 12 - The European Union and Turkey will see no progress in their relations as long as Turkey holds journalists in prison, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Friday.
TEHRAN, January 12 -Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Friday the Constitutional Court had overstepped its limit, set out in the law, with its ruling to release two journalists on the grounds that their rights had been violated while in custody.
TEHRAN, December 31 - Eighty one journalists were killed and many more faced harassment as threats against journalist soared to an unprecedented level in 2017, according to the International Federation of Journalists (IJF).
TEHRAN, December 29 -Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar for obtaining “important secret papers” were arrested just after being handed rolled papers by police officials in a restaurant to which they had been invited for dinner, their family members say.
TEHRAN, December 19 - At least 65 media workers around the world have been killed doing their jobs this year, media freedom organization Reporters Without Borders said on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, August 30 - The United Nations’ top human rights official has warned that US President Donald Trump's relentless attacks on the media could trigger violence against journalists and undermine freedom of the press.
TEHRAN, April 2, YJC - Istanbul’s Chief Prosecutor’s Office has ordered the re-arrest of 21 journalists who were supposed to be released from detention by order of an Istanbul court.
Tehran, YJC. -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message on the first International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, 2 November 2014, while announcing that in the last ten years more than 700 journalists have been killed in the line of duty, called for elimination of impunity of those who kill journalists simply because they do their job.
Tehran, YJC. -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message on World Press Freedom Day, 3 May 2014 announced that since 1992, well over 1,000 journalists have been killed -- nearly one per week.
Tehran, YJC. -- Two French journalists kidnapped shortly after arriving in Syria in June are alive and Paris is working for their release, the defence minister said on Sunday.