Ankara Criminal Judicature of Peace decided for 136 URLs to be banned to access upon the request of the Gendarmerie General Command. The URLs banned to access include those on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Youtube as well as news portals. One of the URLs involving in the decree is bianet.org. Bianet organises news workshops to spread rights-focused news reporting with the perspective of social gender and peace journalism; while recording violations of freedom of expression with male violence records and media monitoring reports. With the decree issued by the Judicature without showing any reason, at least 200 thousand news on Bianet, on air since November 2000, are banned to access.
06.08.2019
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