Greek journalists will join a 24-hour strike tomorrow 28 January at 6am protesting recent government plans to overhaul the social security system initiated by workers in private and public sector as well as farmers, which is going on since 8th January 2016. Members of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) in Greece (PFJU, JUADN, ESIEMTH and ESPIT) called on the government to engage in dialogue with the workers’ organisations before overhauling the entire system. They also called for the autonomy of the sector’s social insurance funds and guaranties of their financial resources as well as all press workers rights that…

Leading international free expression and press freedom groups condemn government’s refusal to allow supporters to visit pair jailed for their reporting, call for their release A coalition of leading international free expression and press freedom groups condemns the Turkish government’s refusal to allow supporters to visit journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül, who are behind bars for reports claiming that Turkey’s intelligence agency secretly armed Islamist rebel groups in Syria, and calls for their immediate release. Dündar, editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet, and Gül, the newspaper’s Ankara bureau chief, are being held at the high-security Silivri Prison, west of Istanbul, reportedly awaiting…