Sentence examples for press clampdown from inspiring English sources

But Erdogan, ignoring complaints that he is behind the press clampdown, said on Sunday that the freedom of media was important for the country's democracy.

An increasingly efficient press and social media clampdown ensures silence shrouds their fate.

She is a founding member of butterland, a group dedicated to slow journalism whose projects include reporting done with victims of Turkey's clampdown on press freedom.

Robert Wintemute, a professor of human rights law at King's College, London, said that "I hope this is an aberration rather than a signal of a wider clampdown" on press freedom and human rights.

The hearing, at the vast prison complex of Silivri 60 miles from Istanbul, takes place amid a severe clampdown on press freedom in Turkey following a failed coup in July 2016.

There was also anger over the chancellor's decision to press ahead with the clampdown on IR35, a loophole which allows companies to hire individual contractors without paying national insurance - a broad practice in the IT industry.

His government was characterised by human rights violations, a clampdown on press freedom, secret tribunals, executions under retroactive decrees, and a "War against Indiscipline" which saw men and women whipped, slapped and humiliated.

The government's clampdown on press freedom continues unabated.

It has reignited concerns over a clampdown on press freedom in Turkey.

Foreigners moan about the arrest and murder of opposition leaders, a clampdown on the press, or frittering of oil revenues on palaces and luxury cars.

In a briefing for the European Union-China summit this week, Amnesty pointed to continuing harsh treatment of people involved in the 1989 pro-democracy Tiananmen Square protests and to the recent clampdown on the press and internet.