Journalist Kibriye Evren wasn't released: Anonymous witnesses taint my profession

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  • 16:05 6 December 2018
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DİYARBAKIR- Journalist Kibriye Evren said that anonymous witnesses taint the profession, and denied the accusations against her. The trial she wasn't released ,was  postponed.

Kibriye Evren who was taken under custody and then got arrested in the scope of an investigation run by Diyarbakır Cheif Prosecutor's Office with the charge "being a member of an illegal organization" and "praising an illegal organization" had her first hearing in Diyarbakır 5th Criminal Court. Prosecution requested 22 years of jail time.
 
Mezopotamya Women Journalists Platform members, People's Democratic Party Diyarbakır Parliamentarians Remziye Tosun and Semra Güzel, women journalists and her family members attended the trial.
 
Evren stating that the anonymous witnesses are tainting her profession, said: "The duty of a journalist is to produce news. To write the truth. To get in contact with their sources, with the people, engage in dialog.I have gone abroad because of my profession. The statements of the anonymous witnesses are not true and I reject all of it.Those people are trying to taint my profession.They are trying to make journalism look illegal. I am practicing a perfectly legal profession, in a perfectly legal foundation.I work in a women's news agency. I talk to people in all walks of life, from all parties and make news of them.TJA is a women's foundation.I don't accept the charges.I demand my release.What I shared in my social media accounts are the articles of different agencies."
 
The court board who requested the anonymous witnesses Ezhel, Firar and Cesur Yürek to be produced the next session for recording of their statements, and decided continuation of detention of Evren and postponed the trial to January 10.
 

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