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CPJ calls for Turkey to overturn journalist’s 15-month sentence

New York, June 9, 2010–The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Istanbul’s Yargıtay High Court to overturn on appeal a 15-month prison sentence given to Turkish journalist Irfan Aktan on Friday. Aktan was found guilty of “producing terrorist propaganda” in an article published in an issue of the biweekly Express in October 2009.

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