Mehmet Ali Tecin and defendants in the ‘Umut’ case, sentenced. Nureddin Sirin, moved to high security isolation unit.

Mehmet Ali Tekin, a journalist, was sentenced to twelve and half years imprisonment for membership of an illegal organisation last month… Nureddin Sirin, another journalist, was sentenced to seventeen and a half years imprisonment in 1997 for helping to

In recent months he has been held in solitary confinement and his books and other basic facilities have been denied him. Only people with the same last name as him can visit him. This affects not only his friends but even could affect his wife who bears

Selam weekly is an Istanbul based newspaper. Its journalists have been regularly persecuted for their outspoken criticism of the government and their Islamic beliefs.