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IPI joins Turkish media organisations in launch of campaign against imprisonment of journalists
According to IPI's Turkey National Committee, over 700 journalists are currently facing lawsuits and the threat of imprisonment. -
Iraqi democracy: glass half-empty or half-full?
The jury is still out on the prospects for Iraq’s fragile democracy, judging by the commentaries preceding President Obama’s speech ... -
Two TV stations have licences revoked, could face criminal charges
Privately-run TV stations TVi and 5 Kanal were the only two independent and unbiased channels left in the country, according ... -
Shots fired at windows of newspaper office
"Svitlytsa" newspaper had recently published reports that were critical of the local authorities. -
Islam and democracy ‘not contradictory’
Islamic history provides grounds for promoting democracy in the Arab world, according to Heather Ferguson and Ty McCormick. -
Democracy: Iraq’s vital ingredient?
Our friends at POMED draw our attention to an op-ed in The Guardian by Hayder al-Khoei, a researcher at ... -
Putin uses ‘toilet talk’ to disparage dissidents
Russia’s de facto leader, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, today hinted he would return to the presidency in 2012 and justified ... -
Not even a Beijing consensus on the China model?
The wrong lesson to draw from China’s emergence as the world’s second-largest economy is that authoritarianism works, writes Chrystia Freeland. ... -
Pakistan – the next Indonesia?
Pakistan could yet follow Indonesia and overcome secessionist violence, Islamist radicalism and an overly powerful military to effect democratic change, ... -
ECHR rules against Turkey in case of murdered journalist
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Turkey neither prevented the murder of journalist Hrant Dink nor carried out ...
