Information Meeting on the UPR Process in Turkey: Press Freedom

IOHR and the Press Emblem Campaign held a panel discussion on 27 January 2020 at the United Nations Office in Geneva to coincide with the UN’s Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review of Turkey.

Former US Ambassador-at-large for War Crimes Issues Stephen Rapp, Liberal Democrat MEP Irina von Wiese, journalists Yazuz Baydar and Barış Altıntaş and Massimo Frigo, Senior Legal Advisor for International Commission for Jurists, discuss the unprecedented threat to human rights in Turkey with regards to freedom of expression.