Former Supreme Court judge gets 9.5 years in prison in post-coup trial

A former top judge who was jailed as part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup crackdown has been sentenced to 9.5 years in prison.

Former Supreme Court of Appeals member Yusuf Memis was convicted of membership to the Gulen movement, a broadened terror charge the Turkish government often uses to imprison its critics.

Memis was first given 7 years in jail, the court in charge increased his sentence to over 10.5 years using discretionary power in compliance with the anti-terror law, and then reduced it to 9 years, 7 months and 15 days due to Memis’s good conduct during hearings.

Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding the July 15, 2016 failed coup while the latter denies involvement.

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