Turkey - Oda TV trial: court fails to release journalist Yalçin Küçük

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders deplores the fact that the Istanbul court that is trying the Oda TV news website case failed to release the writer and journalist Yalçin Küçük and Hanefi Avci, the other defendant still in preventive detention, when the latest hearing in the trial was held on 21 March. Küçük, who has been detained since 6 March 2011, is also facing a possible life sentence in the ongoing Ergenekon conspiracy trial. “It is regrettable that the Turkish courts insist on maintaining certain (...)

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