Turkey seeks three-year prison sentences for Imamoglu journalists

Turkey is seeking three-year jail terms for seven journalists arrested while covering the recent protests following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor and major political opposition figure, Ekrem Imamoglu.

Reported by Middle East Eye on April 9^th, the journalists’ indictment stated that the journalists declared they were at the protest within the scope of journalism activisities, but that there was no evidence to verify that.

Thousands of people have been arrested in response to the protests with Turkey being regularly cited as one of the world’s worst jailers of journalists by media freedom organisations.