Court returns indictment involving two journalists

Ankara 28th Heavy Penal Court returned the indictment prepared for 49 people, 5 of them in prison, including journalists Dicle Müftüoğlu and Sedat Yılmaz.

Ankara 28th Heavy Penal Court has returned the indictment prepared for 49 people, 5 of them in prison. Among the 49 are Dicle Fırat Journalists Association (DFG) co-chair, Dicle Müftüoğlu, and MA editor Sedat Yılmaz. 

The reason of the court for the rejection of the indictment is not known, due to the confidentiality order about the case file, wrote Mesopotamia Agency. 

Background?

Dicle Müftüoğlu and Sedat Yılmaz were taken into custody in Diyarbakır on 29 April within the scope of an investigation launched by the Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office. 

The two journalists met with their lawyers after a 24-hour ban. The lawyers said that Müftüoğlu and Yılmaz had been kept handcuffed for 15 hours while being transported from Diyarbakır to Ankara, and deprived of food for 24 hours. 

Müftüoğlu and Yılmaz were arrested by the night court where they appeared and were sent to the Sinncan Closed Women's Prison and Sincan 2nd F Type High-Security Prison respectively.