Mezopotamya Agency reporter Barış Polat was taken into custody and arrested while distributing Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper closed by a Statutory Decree. He was charged with “membership in a terrorist organization” on the grounds of his social media posts, calling his friends as “heval” (in Kurdish, it means ‘friend’) and having the old issues of the newspaper that he distributed in his house. Polat has been sentenced to 6 years and 3 months of imprisonment.
