The İstanbul 13th Heavy Penal Court, in its verdict dated January 16, 2018, has sentenced Ayşe Düzkan, Ragıp Duran, columnists of the newspaper Mehmet Ali Çelebi and Hüseyin Bektaş to 18 months of imprisonment and co-Editor-in-Chief Hüseyin Aykol to 3 years and 9 months imprisonment on the charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” as per the Article no. 7/2 of the Anti-Terror Law as they have participated in the Editors-in-Chief on Watch campaign that was launched in solidarity with the Özgür Gündem newspaper, which was closed as per the Statutory Decree no. 675.
