Press Freedom
The Empty Chair That Won’t Shut Up
Fatih Altaylı, the mercurial Turkish journalist with a taste for provocation and Bellini mocktails, has turned imprisonment into performance. From letters laced with dry humor to silent videos of his empty chair, he keeps breaking stories from prison.
Syria’s Underground Newspaper
Smuggled past checkpoints, hidden under women’s clothes and printed in secret, Enab Baladi chronicled the Syrian revolution at enormous personal cost to its publishers. Fourteen years later, after prison, exile and loss, they have returned to Damascus to help rebuild the country’s media landscape.
A Moroccan Cop’s Battle Against Sexual Harassment — Including Her Own
Observers might think that Morocco is making progress in prosecuting sexual assault and other crimes against women, but real victims often languish while the state trumps up charges against its critics.