Our reporter sentenced to two years’ jail

Cumhuriyet newspaper reporter Canan Coşkun has been sentenced to two years and three months’ imprisonment for “targeting people serving in the fight against terrorism.” The court neither applied a reduction nor did it defer the sentence.

 The ruling hearing of the trial on the count of “targeting people serving in the fight against terrorism” instituted against Cumhuriyet newspaper reporter Canan Coşkun, who reported on the interrogation at the public prosecutor’s office to which the twenty lawyers who had been arrested as part of an investigation being conducted into DHKP-C were taken in September, was heard at Istanbul Serious Crime Court No 26 at Çağlayan.

 Along with CHP MP Sezgin Tanrıkulu and Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions Press Union General Chair Faruk Eren, many of her colleagues monitored the hearing.

 The prosecutor, presenting his recommendation at the previous session, had sought a jail term of up to three years under Article 6/1 of the Law on Combatting Terrorism on the charge that Coşkun “made a report that compromised the investigation and identified a secret witness,” despite the absence of a restriction order on the investigation file relating to Nuriye and Semih's lawyers’ detention.

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