Court orders two journalists held on terrorist conspiracy charge - Reporters Without Borders: "Reporters Without Borders is deeply shocked by an Istanbul court’s decision yesterday to detain two journalists arrested on 3 March, Ahmet Sik and Nedim Sener, on a charge of belonging to an alleged “terrorist” conspiracy known as Ergenekon, like the four Oda TV journalists arrested previously. A charge of inciting hate was dropped.
“We are stunned by the insistence on persecuting these journalists,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The judicial system seems bent on controlling information about the Ergenekon case at all costs. The grounds for jailing them seem very weak. The prosecutor claims it is nothing to do with their journalistic work but says he cannot reveal his ‘proof’ for reasons of confidentiality. The judicial authorities ought to release the evidence they claim to have against these journalists.”
More than 2,000 people, including hundreds of journalists, staged a demonstration in Istanbul on 4 March in protests against last week’s wave of searches and arrests of journalists (see pictures below). Another demonstration was held in Ankara to demand the immediate release of the detained journalists."
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