9 years and 9 months of sentence given to the journalists approved 2018-11-29 14:07:14 İSTANBUL- 9 years and 9 months of sentence given to the journalist who attend to the campaign of "Executive Editor on Duty" in solidarity with the Özgür Gündem which was shot down with a law decree.   Journalists Ayşe Düzkan, Hüseyin Akyol, Mehmet Ali Çelebi, Hüseyin Bektaş, and Ragıp Duran was sentenced to prison time on charges of "Praising an illegal organization" by the İstanbul 13th Criminal Court. Even though the attorney  requested additional time in the final hearing, the court board rejected.