Attacks on the Press in 2010 - Committee to Protect Journalists

Journalists in Prisoncriminal conviction and prison sentence handed down in connectionwith his coverage of 2008 labor protests in the Gafsa mining region.A correspondent for the Italy-based satellite television broadcaster Al-Hiwar al-Tunisi, Boukadous had been sentenced to a four-year prisonterm on charges of “belonging to a criminal association” and spreadingmaterials “likely to harm public order.”Boukadous was taken into custody a day after he left a hospital in thecity of Sousse, where he was being treated for acute asthma. Colleaguesand family said they were very concerned about Boukadous’ health. InOctober, Boukadous waged a hunger strike to protest his detention atGafsa Prison.Turkey: 4imprisoned: january 30, 2009Vedat Kurşun, Azadiya WelatKurşun, former editor-in-chief of the Kurdish daily Azadiya Welat, wasarrested at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport, according to Bia, a Turkish pressfreedom group. He was charged under the country’s Anti-Terror Lawwith spreading the propaganda of the banned Kurdistan Workers Party,or PKK, in the paper’s coverage during 2007 and 2008.On May 13, Kurşun was sentenced to 166 years and six months inprison on 103 counts of spreading “propaganda on behalf of theterrorist organization” and “committing crimes on behalf of the organization,”according to Dogan News Agency. The Journalists Associationof Turkey announced in July that it had awarded a 2010 Press FreedomAward to Kurşun.Azadiya Welat is the only Kurdish-language daily in Turkey.imprisoned: january 5, 2010Bedri Adanir, Hawar and AramAdanir, owner of the pro-Kurdish publishing house Aram and editorin-chiefof the daily Hawar, was sentenced to one year and threemonths in jail in April 2009, the state Anatolian Agency reported.Adanir was charged under the country’s Anti-Terror Law with spreadingthe propaganda of the banned Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK.The charges stem from a book published by Aram and written by PKKleader Abdullah Ocalan, titled Kültür-Sanat Devrimi Üzerine (On401