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Last update: 26-Apr-2020 |
An indictment has been issued against Mezopotamya News Agency reporters Sadiye Eser and Sadık Topaloğlu, who were both jailed pending trial on 3 December 2019. Topaloğlu’s arrest in 2011 during an operation targeting Kurdish media outlets and his notes and news reports found in a raid of his home were listed as evidence against him in the indictment. Eser faces charges over the demonstrations she attended as a journalist and her arrest following a 2012 operation, for which the prosecution is ongoing. The first hearing in Eser and Topaloğlu’s trial on the charge of “membership of a terrorist group” will be held on 26 March 2020.
Sadiye Eser and Sadık Topaloğlu, two reporters for Mezopotamya news agency (MA), were arrested in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul on 29 November 2019. The two were jailed pending trial on 3 December 2019 by the 3rd Criminal Judgeship of Peace. The journalists, who were directly sent to court without first giving their statements at the Prosecutor’s Office, were put in pre-trial detention on the charge of “membership in a terrorist organization.” The grounds for arrest were Eser and Topaloğlu’s travels abroad and the trials launched previously against them. While Eser was sent to the Bakırköy Women’s Prison, Topaloğlu was first sent to Metris Prison to be later transferred to Silivri. |
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