Journalist organizations to protest arrests
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- 16:14 09/3/2020
DFG, MKG Platform and Diyarbakır TGS Branch will hold a press conference tomorrow to draw attention to the detentions and arrests of journalists.
DFG, MKG Platform and Diyarbakır TGS Branch will hold a press conference tomorrow to draw attention to the detentions and arrests of journalists.
Gültan Kışanak and Sabahat Tuncel were not released at the hearing held today in Malatya. Kışanak celebrated March 8 while Tuncek said: "We are being tried today because we said that women are exposed to harassment, violence and massacres."
Stating that the arrest of Yeni Yaşam newspaper Editor-in-Chief Ferhat Celik and Executive Editor Aydin Keser is aimed at silencing the free press, he conveyed the message, "We will carry on the torch of Musa Anter, we will never drop it."
DİSK Chair Arzu Çerkezoğlu who was sued because of a speech she made at the 'Where's Turkey going' panel was acquitted of all charges.
HDP Group Deputy Chairperson Saruhan Oluç said 'According to this government, journalism is a crime now' regarding the detentions and arrests of journalists. Oluç also reacted to the attack against the feminist night march.
Arrested Yeni Yaşam Newspaper Executive Editor Aydın Keser and Editor in Chief Mehmet Ferhat Çelik were taken to Silivri No 9 Prison.
ATO Secretary General Ali Karakoç, underlining that the hospitals are considered to be factories while health workers are treated as slaves with the Health Transformation Program, Karakoç called for the White rally to be held on March 15.
The third hearing of the retrial of Gültan Kışanak and Sebahat Tuncel started in Malatya 5th High Criminal Court.
Women taken into custody last night in the March 8 Feminist Night March which was banned by the Governor, was released.
Mustafa Koçak who is on a death fast for 251 days demanding 'fair trial' is detoriorating. His sister Sevgül Koçak who stated that his brother is now 33 kilos, said: "He said his goodbyes to us. If he is not released from prison, we're gonna have to take him out in a coffin."
Periklis Koulifetis, who explained the violence that refugees face between the two countries with the cartoon he drew, pointed out the economic crisis in his country and said: "Greece will do whatever EU says as long as the crisis continues."
HDP ex-Co-Chair Figen Yüksekdağ sent a message from the prison where she is imprisoned for March 8. The message reads: “I send you a message with the hope that March 8 will open the doors of hope, courage, peace, freedom and justice from inside to outside”.
Yeni Yaşam Newspaper's Responsible Editorial Manager Çelik and Editor in Chief Keser, who were taken into custody again upon the objection of the prosecutor's office, are arrested.
Professor in UCLA, a member of the scientific commitee of Observatory of the Refugee and Migration Crisis in the Aegean, Prof. Dr. Laurie Kain Hart said, “We need a massive refusal of camps, of assaults, of walls, of death at sea, and we need massive temporary assistance in the midst of the current crisis."
Yeni Yaşam Newspaper's Responsible Editorial Manager Ferhat Çelik and Editor in Chief Aydın Keser, are taken into custody by the objection of the prosecution regarding their release yesterday. Çelik and Keser are expected to be brought to the prosecutor on duty today.