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Journalist Çakar Faces 20 Years in Jail

Journalist Çakar Faces 20 Years in Jail

The prosecution demanded imprisonment of 20 years for Gurbet Çakar, editorial manager of the Kurdish-Turkish Renge Heviya Jine women magazine. She is charged with spreading propaganda for the PKK and "committing a crime on behalf of the organization".

11 October 2010 Erol Önderoğlu

Chief Editor of Women Magazine Detained since March!

Chief Editor of Women Magazine Detained since March!

Gurbet Çakar, editorial manager of the Kurdish-Turkish women magazine Rengê Hevîya Jinê, has been in detention for three months. A Diyarbakır court decided to extend her detention for at least 20 days. She had previously been sentenced to more than three years in jail.

14 June 2010 Erol Önderoğlu