ECPMF helps Turkish editor to defend his journalism in court
by ECPMF
Ali Ergin Demirhan is the editor-in-chief of sendika.org and the weekly newspaper "Halkın Sesi" that are critical of the Turkish government. Following the referendum in April 2017 he was arrested. The ECPMF is supporting his legal defence.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
They came for him at dawn. On April 20th, 2017 at 5.45 a.m., Turkish police raided Ali Ergin Demirhan’s office and apartment. They seized his computer and cellphone, and took him into custody on charges of "organising protests on social media accounts in attempt to make the referendum results look illegitimate". He was also accused of "inciting people to hatred and…
