Solidarity message for detained journalists from Debbie Bookchin
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- 21:20 09/6/2022
Journalist Debbie Bookchin sent a message of solidarity for the 20 journalists detained yesterday in Diyarbakır.
Journalist Debbie Bookchin sent a message of solidarity for the 20 journalists detained yesterday in Diyarbakır.
Five people were injured as a result of a Turkish drone bombing a warehouse in Qamishlo.
The hearing of the case in which 46 journalists and media workers were tried for their professional activities in Istanbul was postponed.
It was learned that while the restraining order in the files of 21 people, including 20 journalists detained in Diyarbakır yesterday continues, the journalists are being held in solitary confinement.
Demanding justice with a sit-in for the last 458 days, Emine Şenyaşar told that she will continue the sit-in despite her health issues until she gets justice.
Condemning the detention of their colleagues in Diyarbakır, journalists called for solidarity to all press organisations against the government's effort for a "monologist media".
MSD Presidential Council Member Mihemed Eli Hesen, who evaluated Turkey's threats of attack against Northern and Eastern Syria, stated that the aim is to avenge ISIS and said, "All components of the region must stand against these tyrants and invading gangs."
Human skeletons and bones were found near Saraykapı Prison which was once known as a JİTEM base in Sur district.
Number of the journalist detained in Diyarbakır increased to 21. Journalist Mehmet Ali Ertaş was handcuffed for 10 hours.
Condemning the detention of journalists and stating that they have been getting the truth to the people with the same determination for years, the DFG and MKGP said: "You have not been able to silence the free press for 50 years and you will not be able to do it now."
The report regarding the detention of journalists in Diyarbakır was not given to their lawyers. Pro-AKP-KDP media organisations targeted journalists and told that the journalists detained in the operation was "KCK Press Committee".
A restriction decision was brought on the files of journalists detained in Diyarbakır. The court decision requested by the lawyers was rejected on the grounds that the operation against journalists is ongoing.
Releaseing after four days, she was detained on the grounds of sending money to her colleagues in prison, Journalist Dicle Müftüoğlu said: "The detention of journalists today is an effort to obscure the truth."
Pointing out that the increasing assassinations of Kurdish revolutionaries in Hewlêr stemmed from the free movement of Turkish and Iranian intelligence, Journalist Karwan Hewram said: "The KDP is acting in their interests."
At least 16 journalists, including DFG Co-chair Serdar Altan and JINNEWS Director Safiye Alagaş, were detained in Diyarbakır.