This was a trial where the crime was journalism, and the only evidence was journalistic activities
Joint Statement on the Cumhuriyet trial: 30 media freedom and freedom of expression organisations call on the institutions of the Council of Europe and its member states to remind Turkey of its international obligation to respect and protect human rights.
Cumhuriyet trial: pictures from the courtroom (by Murat Basol, Zeynep Ozatalay, Nalan Yirtmac)
We, the undersigned freedom of expression and human rights organisations, strongly condemn last night’s guilty verdicts for staff and journalists of Cumhuriyet newspaper and note the harsh sentences for the defendants. The verdict further demonstrates that Turkey’s justice system and the rule of law is failing: this…