Hatice Duman

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hatice Duman (born April 5, 1974 in Malatya ) is a Kurdish journalist and editor-in-chief of the party newspaper of the MLKP Atılım . Since April 9, 2003, she has been detained in Gebze Prison on charges of being a member of a terrorist group . On October 16, 2012, the Court of Cassation upheld the verdict by imposing life imprisonment on her .

youth

Hatice Duman was born on April 5, 1974 in the eastern Malatya Province. Her family moved to southeast Antep Province for economic reasons . After completing her school days in Antep, she graduated from Trakya University in 1996 .

Career as a journalist

Hatice Duman started as a reporter at Atılım in 1996 and took over the role of editor-in-chief of this daily newspaper in 1997.

Arrest and legal background

The police conducted a search of her home at around 4:00 pm on April 9, 2002. She put it Hatice Duman as "the other woman" in connection with two of the robberies was sought is. Hatice Duman was referring to article 168, paragraph 1 of the old Turkish Penal Code of in connection with the accusation that leaders terrorist organization to be , condemned.

According to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), many legal proceedings against Hatice Duman have been initiated on the basis of Article 7 of the Turkish Anti-Terrorism Law, because of the articles she published in newspapers. Hatice Duman has been on trial since 2005 because she is a "member of an outlaw / armed organization", the Marksist Leninist Komünist Parti (MLKP). As part of the investigation against Duman, the Atılım weekly editor Necati Abay was also under arrest in April 2003. On May 4, 2011, the 12th Great Criminal Chamber in Istanbul finally sentenced her to life imprisonment for seeing Hatice Duman as one of the leaders of the MLCP, which is forcibly striving to destroy the constitutional order. Her lawyers appealed, and on October 16, 2012 the 9th Criminal Senate of the Court of Cassation upheld the judgment.

Hatice Duman is today (October 2018) in prison according to the Stockholm Center of Freedom in Gebze.

Defense position

According to the imprisoned journalist, “the state is using all its violence and repression to keep us from knowing, seeing and writing the truth. All published issues [of our newspaper] have been confiscated and we have been prevented from following the news. Our cameras and recording devices were destroyed. They confiscated our computers. They filed lawsuits against the confiscated editions of our newspaper. "

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Journalist Receives Life-Time Imprisonment Bianet ( Turkish Bağımsız İletişim Ağı , independent Turkish news and press agency ), October 16, 2012
  2. ↑ Aslı, Deniz, Ziya - charged with journalism In: Die Zeit March 13, 2017
  3. ↑ Left-Wing Female Journalist Hatice Duman Serving Life-Time Imprisonment in Turkey In: Council of Europe April 2, 2015
  4. ↑ Table of imprisoned journalists in Turkey Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) April 2012
  5. ^ Jailed and wanted Journalists in Turkey- Updated List - Stockholm Center for Freedom . In: Stockholm Center for Freedom . ( stockholmcf.org [accessed November 13, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Duman, Hatice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5th 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Malatya