Kurdish journalist gets prison sentence in retrial over alleged Erdoğan insult

A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced Kurdish journalist Hakkı Boltan to more than one year in prison in a retrial on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, refusing to suspend the sentence. According to the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA), the Diyarbakır 12th First Criminal court acquitted Boltan of a separate charge of […] The post Kurdish journalist gets prison sentence in retrial over alleged Erdoğan insult appeared first on Stockholm Center for Freedom.

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