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Kurdish journalist Hatice Duman (left) has been in prison since 2002
CAMPAIGNERS are demanding the release of Turkey’s “forgotten journalist” as the government is set to free 100,000 prisoners amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Hatice Duman, the former editor of socialist newspaper Atilim, is believed to be the world’s longest-jailed reporter.
She was arrested in 2002 and sentenced to life in prison for alleged crimes including “management of a terrorist organisation,” though she has always denied the charges.
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