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Turkey: DIHA News agency reporter
sentenced for PKK "Propaganda"
2.10.2006 |
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Dicle News Agency reporter Birol Duru and IHD
member Daimi Acig have been sentenced to 6 years 3
months imprisonment each for "aiding the PKK
organization". Duru was released in 2005 after
serving 4.5 months in jail and will appeal against
verdict.
Diyarbakir, Turkey-Kurdistan, October 12, (BIA)--
Dicle News Agency (DIHA) reporter Birol Duru and
Human Rights Association (IHD) member Daimi Acig
have been sentenced to 6 years 3 months imprisonment
each on charges of "aiding and abetting the PKK
organization".
Duru was detained last year while photographing
cannabis fields in the Dinarbey village of Bingol's
Karliova district and was set free on December 29,
2005 to stand trial in the case.
While neither of the defendants were present at the
last hearing of the Diyarbakir 4th High Criminal
Court, their attorney Servet Ozen said they would be
appealing against the verdict.
The court ruled for both defendants to be sentenced
under Penal Code articles 314/3 and 220/7 finding
them guilty of "knowingly and willingly aiding and
abetting members of the organization in awareness of
their status".
While Duru was caught attempting to get visual
confirmation of the cannabis fields in Bingol the
story he was working on aimed to uncover claims that
the Bingol province Yedisu district Gendarme
Commander Captain A.Y. was cultivating the plants in
a conspiracy with local villages.
He was arrested on grounds of carrying in his
possession a cassette that "praised the militants of
the HPG", the Peoples' Defense Forces of the PKK on
August 14, 2005.
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