Reporters get two years in prison for blasphemy

Two journalists in Turkey have been sentenced to two years in jail for “insulting religious values” after they reprinted a controversial cover from the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo above their columns. An Istanbul court on Thursday sentenced Ceyda Karan and Hikmet Cetinkaya to two years behind bars for illustrating their columns with a cartoon […]

Two journalists in Turkey have been sentenced to two years in jail for “insulting religious values” after they reprinted a controversial cover from the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo above their columns. An Istanbul court on Thursday sentenced Ceyda Karan and Hikmet Cetinkaya to two years behind bars for illustrating their columns with a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad published by French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. “The two journalists were sentenced to two years each in jail,” said Bulent Utku, lawyer for Hikmet Cetinkaya and Ceyda Karan.