Arrested journalist Ismail Çoban was sentenced to 4 years and six months of imprisonment in a lawsuit he was on retrial as he was still arrested in another case that concluded with conviction in 2018. Diyarbakır 7th Assize Court had previously sentenced previously shut-down Azadiya Welat Daily’s former Managing Editor Ismail Çoban to 5 years of imprisonment due to “making illegal organisation propaganda” through 15 news articles published in the newspaper in 2013 and the sentence had been reversed, leading to retrial.
The expressions used in the news articles, such as “Kurdish Public Leader,” “PKK Leader” used for Abdullah Öcalan as well as the word “martyr” being used for killed PKK members and the word “guerilla” being used for the organisation members.
29.06.2021
MLSA