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Turkish court gives suspended sentence to journalist over report on judicial corruption

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A Turkish court on Thursday handed down a five-month suspended sentence to journalist Tolga Şardan for publicly insulting the state’s judicial organs in an article reporting on alleged corruption in the judiciary. According to the T24 news website, the İstanbul 2nd Court of First Instance acquitted Şardan of a separate charge of publicly disseminating misleading […] The post Turkish court gives suspended sentence to journalist over report on judicial corruption appeared first on Stockholm Cen...