Turkey - Alarm over premature closure of prosecution case in Dink murder trial

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders shares the view of the family of the murdered newspaper editor Hrant Dink that it is premature for the prosecution to conclude its case in the trial of his accused murderers. Dink's family and its lawyers walked out of the Istanbul courtroom in protest when prosecutor Hikmet Usta began reading his 86-page summing-up during the 20th hearing on 19 September. “We have always said that the slowness with which this trial was proceeding was unbearable, but hastily (...)

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