In Sweden, all the media had a look at Ankara on Wednesday April 30. Arrested on March 27 when he arrived in Istanbul, Swedish journalist Joakim Medin was tried to insult the Turkish president, Recepte Tayyip Erdogan. At the end of an expeditious trial, during which he appeared in videoconferencing, the verdict fell in the afternoon: the reporter of the daily life of the left Dagens etcwhich risked two years’ imprisonment, was sentenced to eleven months and twenty days in prison suspended. If his family and colleagues have expressed their relief, he is far from being drawn: Joakim Medin must still be tried, in a second procedure, for “Belonging to an armed terrorist organization” And “Diffusion of terrorist propaganda”. A crime for which he faces up to nine years in prison.
On Wednesday, many Swedish journalists had made the trip to follow the trial on the spot. They were accompanied by an important delegation, from Stockholm, made up in particular presidents of the two associations of press publishers, the Secretary General of the Swedish Union of Journalists, the Green MP Ulrika Westerlund and the former leader of the left party Jonas Sjöstedt. Today MEP, he denounced “A political trial” And assured that he was going to work for the European Parliament to mobilize in favor of the release of Joakim Medin.
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