Human Rights Watch and partner NGOs scored a victory for free expression in Turkey with the February 13 acquittal of Turkish publisher Fatih Tas. Tas had been charged with dispensing "separatist propaganda" for publishing a book by Noam Chomsky that described human rights violations in southeastern Turkey, where a large population of Kurds lives. The essay in question, called "Prospects for Peace," includes a comment about the repression of the Kurds which Chomsky said "was largely drawn, with quite a few direct quotes, from HRW reports."
Free Expression in Turkey
Your tax deductible gift can help stop human rights violations and save lives around the world.
Region / Country
Topic
Most Viewed
-
September 27, 2014
Guinea: 5 Years On, No Justice for Massacre
-
April 17, 2024
West Bank: Israel Responsible for Rising Settler Violence
-
October 29, 2020
“I Sleep in My Own Deathbed”
-
April 27, 2021
A Threshold Crossed
-
June 24, 2022
Q&A: Access to Abortion is a Human Right