Can Dündar is a Turkish journalist, columnist and documentary filmmaker. He was editor-in-chief of the center-left newspaper Cumhuriyet until August 2016. In November 2015, he was arrested after the paper published footage showing Turkish intelligence sending weapons to Islamist fighters in Syria.

He knows what happens when a government turns against the press. Now, he shares his experience and explains how authoritarianism takes hold, how the system works and how to stand up to it.