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Instagram star Sahar Tabar says she is still hoping for a pardon after conviction for corrupting young peopleAn Iranian woman who posted heavily distorted images of herself online has been sentenced to 10 years in jail, her lawyer has said, a year after she was arrested over her social media activities. Sahar Tabar, 19, whose real name is Fatemeh Khishvand, came to prominence after...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s draconian legislation comes into force this week in a bid to censor free speech onlineWhen a team of 20 police officers demanded to search journalist Oktay Candemir’s flat earlier this month, he feared the worst: members of the Turkish media who are critical of the government are often arrested on spurious terrorism charges, and he has been in trouble several...