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Type and
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communication 		Mandates Summary Replies received
    06 Apr 2011
    Türkiye
    JUA
    TUR 3/2011
  • arbitrary Detention
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • terrorism
 Alleged arrest and detention of journalists on terrorism-related charges. According to the information received, on 3 March 2011 Mr. Ahmet Sik and Mr. Nedim Sener were arrested and taken into custody. On 6 March, they were formally charged with ?belonging to a terrorist organization and inciting the public to hatred?. They were taken to Metris Prison in Istanbul to await trial. Mr. Sener had already been on trial for, inter alia, attempting to influence the judiciary, insulting a public official, and revealing classified information in a book that suggested implication of security forces in the murder of a Turkish-Armenian journalist, Hrant Dink, in 2007. He was subsequently acquitted in December 2010. Mr. Sik also faced charges in 2007 for ?denigration of Turkishness? and was acquitted on those charges in April 2008. Since October 2010, he had been on trial for allegedly revealing State secrets in two books which he co-authored.
Alleged victims: 2
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