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

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 conference about the Turkish government’s Internet policies. It will take the form of a round table with the following participants: • Sibel Güneş, the TGC’s general secretary
• İlden Dirini of the Alternative Informatics Association
• Andrew Gardner of Amnesty International
• Cynthia M. Wong and Emma Sinclair-Webb of Human Rights Watch
• Johann Bihr and Erol Önderoğlu of Reporters Without Borders
Time and place: 11 a.m. on 4 September 2014
“Cezayir” Press Centre
Address: Hayriye Cad. No: 12, Galatasaray, Beyoğlu Istanbul, Turkey We invite you to follow RWB activities this week in Istanbul on our dedicated blog.