Over the last 24 months, her work has focused in particular on the legal and protection concerns of journalists from Turkey, both inside the country and in exile. She coordinated the third party interventions for a coalition of leading international NGOs in the 10 cases of journalists currently before the European Court of Human Rights and is a trial monitor for the Cumhuriyet and Altans cases. Sarah leads PEN’s policy and advocacy work on freedom of expression at the UN, regional human rights mechanisms and national governments. Sarah Clarke, International Policy and Advocacy Manager, PEN International In October, he was awarded the Law Society of England & Wales’ Human Rights Lawyer of the Year prize for this work. Tobias is a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership and now spends his time between Istanbul and Cambridge, MA. In addition to this legal work, he’s also been coordinating ECHR interventions from international NGOs, the Council of Europe, and the UN, and raising awareness of the attacks on free expression and the media in Turkey amongst journalists and diplomats. As a lawyer in the legal team at P24, a Turkish press freedom organisation, he was part of the first of over 100,000 potential post-coup applications from Turkey to be accepted for review by the European Court of Human Rights. If you cannot be there in person, join us virtually! LIVE STREAM URL: įor the last year, Tobias has been in Istanbul representing a group of high-profile Turkish journalists, authors and newspaper editors imprisoned in Turkey following 2016’s failed coup attempt and the subsequent government crackdown. Sponsored By: Pen International, Columbia Global Freedom of Expression, ARTICLE 19, Research Institute on Turkey, International Senior Lawyers Project and Committee to Protect Journalists. Agnes Callamard, Director, Columbia Global Freedom of Expression (moderator).Richard Winfield, International Senior Lawyers Project.Çağhan Kızıl, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Research Institute on Turkey.Tobias Garnett, Lawyer for Ahmet and Mehmet Altan and P24, Harvard University.Sarah Clarke, International Policy and Advocacy Manager, PEN International. The event brings together lawyers, journalists and academic experts to explore theĬurrent situation of press and academic freedom in Turkey, and the role of variousĪctors, including the international community, in restoring media freedom. Rights has become the last hope for justice. With no expectation for fair trials at the domestic level, the European Court of Human Judges and prosecutors have been dismissed and replaced with political appointees. What judicial independence existed has been eviscerated as over 4,000 Turkey’s judicial system has come under extraordinary attack since theįailed coup. Trials against 2,212 academics for signing a peace petition, 120 of which will begin inĭecember 2017. The trials of journalists detained since the coup are ongoing whilst the More thanĤ0,000 people are languishing behind bars following the failed coup, including at leastġ70 journalists. Turkey is now the world’s largest prison for journalists and dissenting voices. Independent mainstream media have been all but silenced, with some 180 media Human rights in Turkey has accelerated since the failed coup attempt of July 2016. The Turkish authorities’ relentless crackdown on freedom of expression and other
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