The lawyers of eight former employees of daily Cumhuriyet including journalists and executives, have appealed to an Istanbul court for the suspension of the execution of their jail terms, Hurriyet daily news reported on Tuesday.
The appeal filed on April 22 came after the sentences were uploaded on Turkey’s digital judicial platform, UYAP, which was interpreted by the newspaper in a report on April 19 that the suspects would be sent to prison in one week following the procedures at the prosecutor’s office.
The appeal is for eight journalists and executives out of 14 who were sentenced to less than five years in prison for “aiding a terrorist group without being a member of it.”
The remaining six are sentenced to terms longer than five years and their files are now being reviewed at the Court of Cassation.
According to Hurriyet, the appeal covers sentences handed down to cartoonist Musa Kart, columnist Kadri Gürsel, readership representative Güray Öz, journalist Hakan Kara, Cumhuriyet Foundation member Önder Çelik, accountant Emre İper and lawyers Bülent Utku and Mustafa Kemal Güngör.
The most recent figures documented by SCF show that 185 journalists and media workers were in jail as of April 22, 2019, most in pretrial detention. Of those in prison 95 were under arrest pending trial while 90 journalists have been convicted and are serving their time. Detention warrants are outstanding for 167 journalists who are living in exile or remain at large in Turkey.
The government also closed down some 200 media outlets, including Kurdish news agencies and newspapers, after a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016.
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from Stockholm Center for Freedom https://stockholmcf.org/cumhuriyet-journalists-lawyers-appeal-upcoming-jail-terms/
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