Turkey - A few more releases in KCK trial, next hearing scheduled for 1 October

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders regrets that few of the 205 defendants on trial for alleged links with the armed separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were granted a conditional release during the initial series of hearings from 2 to 13 July, contrary to the government's promise to make preventive detention an exception. The defendants include the well-known journalist, publisher and human rights defender Ragip Zarakolu, who was released in April. Reporters Without Borders, which attended all (...)

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