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| Subject: Reporters Without Borders cites Turkey as ''the world's biggest prison for reporters'' Sat Aug 10, 2013 12:19 am | |
| There's no certainty that Egypt's ousted president Mohammed Mursi has access to the day's news while in detention but if he does, he must shake his head in wonder at the jailing this week of hundreds of senior military men, politicians and journalists in Istanbul - on charges that they plotted to overthrow Turkey's Islamist-inclined government.
Monday's verdicts in Heavy Penal Court No.13 concluded a five-year saga of litigation and politics with former armed forces chief of staff Ilker Basbug locked up for life, along with 16 of his former military colleagues.
Another court at Silivri, west of Istanbul, sentenced three opposition MPs to terms of up to 35 years for their roles in what was described as a plot to oust the government, which was to include the execution of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other prominent figures. More than 20 journalists were bundled off to jail, too.
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