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Can Dündar, former editor-in-chief of the Turkish opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet. Stock Photography.
A Turkish court has ruled that journalist Can Dündar’s assets should be seized and his bank accounts frozen.
The former editor-in-chief of the opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet was sentenced in 2016 to a prison term of several years for espionage after a report on the smuggling of Turkish weapons to armed groups in neighboring Syria. He fled to Germany, where he now lives in exile.
Turkey issued an arrest warrant for Dündar 2018 and requested that he be extradited from Germany. A request that was not honored.
Human rights organizations have accused Turkey of undermining press freedom by arresting journalists and closing newsrooms. The country is ranked 154th out of 180 countries on the Reporters Without Borders list of press freedom in the world.
