ABC Gazetesi’s reporter and a former member of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) party council Sezgin Kartal was sentenced to 10 months in jail on terrorism charges on Thursday.
A Hatay court convicted Kartal and 10 other defendants of spreading terrorist propaganda in 2015 during a press statement about a Kurdish militant who was killed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria. Kartal’s sentence was not suspended. He is currently free pending appeal.
Turkey is the biggest jailer of journalists in the world. The most recent figures documented by SCF show that 211 journalists and media workers were in jail as of March 14, 2019, most in pretrial detention. Of those in prison 134 were under arrest pending trial while only 77 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 the coup attempt on July 15, 2016.
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from Stockholm Center for Freedom https://stockholmcf.org/journalist-sentenced-to-prison-for-a-press-statement-in-2015/
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