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Journalist reporting from northern Syria gets suspended sentence on terrorism charges
A former reporter from Turkey's Dicle news agency (DİHA) has been handed down a suspended three-year sentence on conviction of terrorism due to his...
Turkish journalist gets 6 years for attending Kurdish political movement meetings
A journalist for the now-closed IMC TV has been given a prison sentence of six years, three months on terrorism charges for attending meetings...
Ailing Kurdish journalist sentenced to 14 years on terrorism charges
The Şırnak 1st High Criminal Court on
Tuesday handed down a 14-year prison sentence to Ziya Ataman, a Kurdish journalist
suffering from chronic illnesses, on terrorism...
Kurdish journalist Baysal briefly detained on accusations of terrorism
Nurcan Baysal, a
Kurdish journalist and human rights activist, was briefly detained on Monday on
accusations of membership in a terrorist organization, Turkish media reports
said.Baysal was...
Switzerland sentences asylum-seeking journalist to 30 days for fake passport
Mustafa Mamay, a Kurdish-Turkish journalist who has applied for asylum in Switzerland, was sentenced to 30 days in jail for attempting to enter the...
Kurdish journalist given ‘Human Rights Defenders at Risk’ award in Dublin
Irish human rights organization Front Line Defenders has named Kurdish journalist Nurcan Baysal its Global Laureate for Human Rights Defenders at Risk for 2018,...
Pro-Kurdish DIHA reporter gets 8 years, 9 months on terrorism charges
Nedim Türfent, a reporter for the now defunct pro-Kurdish Dicle News Agency (DIHA), was sentenced to eight years, nine months in prison on Friday.The sentence was...
HDP deputy: Court issued detention warrant for journalist 4 months after death
A Turkish court issued a detention warrant last May for Kurdish journalist and government shuttered Azadiya Welat news editor Rohat Aktaş, who was shot...