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Turkey’s top court finds journalist Cemil Uğur’s arrest for reporting on torture unlawful

Turkey’s top court finds journalist Cemil Uğur’s arrest for reporting on torture unlawful

The Constitutional Court has concluded that “the right to personal liberty and security” of journalist Cemil Uğur has been violated. The journalist spent six months in pre-trial detention after reporting on torture in Turkey’s Van province.

8 February 2022

Reporting on citizens thrown from a helicopter, journalists acquitted a year later

Reporting on citizens thrown from a helicopter, journalists acquitted a year later

Put on trial for reporting on torture in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority eastern province of Van, journalists Bilen, Uğur, Abi, Sala and Durgut have been acquitted of “membership of a terrorist organization”. Sala is given a deferred prison sentence for “propaganda”.