The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 26 other press freedom and human rights organizations Wednesday in condemning the
detentions and arrests
of
at least 11 journalists
in the past two weeks leading up to the
NATO summit
in Ankara on July 7-8.
“The targeting of critical journalists also cannot be viewed in isolation,” the statement said, asking for their immediate release. The organizations also urged Turkish authorities to drop all charges against the journalists and to end the misuse of the country’s laws against journalism.
Read the full statement
here
.
