Journalist Reyhan Hacıoğlu, who was detained during the latest Istanbul-based operations and imprisoned, said, “The free press continues to write and resist under all circumstances.”
Journalists Necla Demir, Rahime Karvar, Ahmet Güneş, Welat Ekin, Vedat Örüç and Reyhan Hacıoğlu, who were detained in house raids on January 17 as part of an Istanbul-based investigation, were imprisoned on charges of “membership in an illegal organization”, referring to the PKK.
Reyhan Hacıoğlu, who was detained in a raid on her house in Van and imprisoned on January 21, sent a message through her lawyer.
Imprisoned in Van T-type Closed Prison, Reyhan Hacıoğlu said, “Those who want to make us the defendants of history should know that we are the witnesses of this history. What we are going through today is no different from what the society is going through.”
The journalist added, “This is the testimony of our truth writing. The news we report and the things we say are not crimes, they are the equivalent of freedom of thought and expression. The free press continues to write and resist under all circumstances.”
