Turkey’s never-ending judicial persecution of former newspaper editor

By paulinea

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns Turkey’s political and judicial persecution of former newspaper editor Can Dündar, who was already sentenced in absentia last December to 27 years in prison for “spying” and “assisting a terrorist organisation” and who is now facing possible life imprisonment in a trial that resumed today in Istanbul. This persecution discredits Turkey’s human rights reforms, RSF said.The former editor of the Cumhuriyet newspaper, Can Dündar is being tried – in absentia again – on charges of espionage and “trying to overthrow the cons

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