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30 April 2021, 14:50 UTC
“Accusing journalists of aiding terrorists because they do not toe the regime’s line is the first step to a totalitarian state,” journalist Sue Turton told me a few years ago.
Turton - the force behind the #FreeAJStaff campaign which helped release three Al Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt in 2013 – was offering thoughts on how to secure the release of more than 100 journalists unjustly detained in Turkey. Journalists who used to observe court cases from the press gallery, now watch them from the dock Stefan Simanowitz, Amnesty International
The country is among the world’s biggest jailers of journalists for the fifth year in a row, and was ranked 153 out of 180 countries in the newly published World Press Freedom Index, between Belarus and Rwanda.
GREAT FALLS, Mont. - Whittier Elementary School in Great Falls is set to reopen Thursday after frozen pipes and ongoing boiler issues forced kids to learn remotely since last Monday.