ISTANBUL - Journalists, who joined the “Chief Editors Vigil” campaign launched for Özgür Gündem daily to show solidarity, have been sentenced to totally 9 years and 9 months in prison.

 

Journalists Ayşe Düzkan, Hüseyin Aykol, Mehmet Ali Çelebi, Hüseyin Bektaş and Ragıp Duran, who joined the “Chief Editors Vigil” campaign launched for Özgür Gündem daily to show solidarity and defend press freedom against oppressions and investigations, have been sentenced to totally nine years and nine months in prison.

 

Journalist Hüseyin Aykol has been sentenced to three years and nine months in prison on terrorist propaganda charges; other journalists Hüseyin Bektaş, Mehmet Ali Çelebi, Ayşe Düzkan and Ragıp Duran have been sentenced to a year and six months in prison by 13rd High Criminal Court in Istanbul.