IPI / SEEMO Joint Statement: Turkish journalist sentenced in absentia to over two years in prison for “insulting” public officials
A journalist from Turkey’s Adıyaman province returned to his hometown last week after receiving medical treatment in Istanbul, to find that a local criminal court had sentenced him in absentia to over two years in prison for insulting public officials, reports IPI Turkey. Authorities in the eastern province’s Gerger district had brought criminal charges against […]
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