State persecution against women journalists on the rise globally
Women journalists are increasingly being targeted by state institutions, not just in autocratic countries but around the globe, writes Kiran Nazish, founder of The Coalition For Women In Journalism, in her op-ed.
On October 9, 2020, Turkish authorities launched a raid at Kurdish news agencies Mesopotamia News and JinNews in their offices in the city of Van. The police immediately arrested and detained some of the journalists working there. Two of the staffers, Nazan Sala and Şehriban Abi, were among those who had previously reported on the torture of Kurdish villagers in a small town called Catak. I was later told by these journalists that the police had questioned and arrested them, particularly for their reportage on the torture cases in Catak. They were told with emphasis that they were in trouble for this coverage.
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They Were Journalists, and Women, and Targeted for Both
As Afghanistan enters a desperate chapter, with U.S. troops potentially on the way out, insurgents are pressing a deadly campaign to silence the media and keep women home.
Relatives and mourners perform funeral prayers over the coffin of one of the three female media workers shot and killed in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, this week.Credit.Noorullah Shirzada/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
You can tell a lot about a country by the reasons its journalists get attacked.
In many places, the greatest dangers come from revealing the sensitive points where power, secrecy and corruption intersect: Stories about connections between cartels and politicians in Mexico, a bribery scandal in the Philippines and illicit actions by the governments of Egypt and Turkey have all led to journalists being imprisoned on trumped-up charges, attacked or even killed.