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FREEDOM of thought and expression is on trial in Turkey, lawyers warned yesterday as an Istanbul court postponed proceedings against nine journalists facing jail on terror charges.
Prosecutors are seeking life sentences for the nine on charges of “disrupting the unity of the state and the integrity of the nation,” along with “membership of an illegal organisation” and “making propaganda for an illegal organisation.”
They worked for Ozgur Gundem, a pro-Kurdish newspaper shut down by presidential decree in 2016 under the state of emergency imposed following a failed military coup.
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
