ZEHRA DOĞAN
![Zehra Doğan, the editor of JINHA, was detained on 21 July 2016 in Mardin, southeastern Turkey, and remanded in pre-trial detention on 23 July on charges of membership of and making propaganda for a terrorist organization.
“I was strip searched [by two women police officers] when I was detained in Mardin. When they took me to the Anti-Terrorism branch, I was strip searched again. Police officers told me ‘there is a state of emergency now, all the rights are ours, we can do whatever we want.’ They threatened me with torture. One of them suggested I should become his lover, that if I did so, he would save me. It was awful. I kept on saying I am a journalist.”
The case against Zehra Doğan was based on witness statements from nine people who alleged they had seen her speaking to members of YPS, the youth wing of the PKK in the town of Nusaybin, Mardin province, during the curfew. Her questioning by the prosecutor lasted no more than 10 minutes. She said: “The prosecutor had already decided to refer me to the judge to be sent to prison”.
In Mardin prison, Zehra Doğan was held with 51 others in a wing designed to hold 30 women. For months, she slept on the floor on blankets. Access to water was limited to three one-hour slots a day. She noticed her hands shaking and hair loss, which she thinks was due to the lack of nutritional value of the food they were given.
Zehra Doğan was released on 9 December 2016. On 3 March 2017, she was acquitted of membership but convicted of making propaganda for a terrorist organization on the basis of shares on social media, none of which contained incitement to violence. She was sentenced to two years, nine months and 22 days in prison. At the time of writing she was at liberty pending the outcome of an appeal.](http://gazeteciliksucdegildir.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/zehra-doğan.jpg)
![Zehra Doğan, the editor of JINHA, was detained on 21 July 2016 in Mardin, southeastern Turkey, and remanded in pre-trial detention on 23 July on charges of membership of and making propaganda for a terrorist organization.
“I was strip searched [by two women police officers] when I was detained in Mardin. When they took me to the Anti-Terrorism branch, I was strip searched again. Police officers told me ‘there is a state of emergency now, all the rights are ours, we can do whatever we want.’ They threatened me with torture. One of them suggested I should become his lover, that if I did so, he would save me. It was awful. I kept on saying I am a journalist.”
The case against Zehra Doğan was based on witness statements from nine people who alleged they had seen her speaking to members of YPS, the youth wing of the PKK in the town of Nusaybin, Mardin province, during the curfew. Her questioning by the prosecutor lasted no more than 10 minutes. She said: “The prosecutor had already decided to refer me to the judge to be sent to prison”.
In Mardin prison, Zehra Doğan was held with 51 others in a wing designed to hold 30 women. For months, she slept on the floor on blankets. Access to water was limited to three one-hour slots a day. She noticed her hands shaking and hair loss, which she thinks was due to the lack of nutritional value of the food they were given.
Zehra Doğan was released on 9 December 2016. On 3 March 2017, she was acquitted of membership but convicted of making propaganda for a terrorist organization on the basis of shares on social media, none of which contained incitement to violence. She was sentenced to two years, nine months and 22 days in prison. At the time of writing she was at liberty pending the outcome of an appeal.](http://gazeteciliksucdegildir.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/zehra-doğan-1228x691.jpg)
Kapatılan JİN Haber Ajansı (JİNHA) editörü ve ressam Zehra Doğan'a, sokağa çıkma yasağı döneminde Mardin, Nusaybin’de çizdiği resimleri sosyal medyada paylaştığı ve 10 yaşındaki bir çocuğun notlarını haberleştirdiği için 2 yıl 9 ay 22 gün hapis cezası verildi. Cezası 2 Haziran 2017’de onanarak kesinleşti.
Zehra Doğan hala Diyarbakır cezaevinde hükümlü bulunuyor. Cezaevinde gazete ve peçeteler üzerine meyve ve sebzelerden elde ettiği boyalarla resim yapmaya devam ediyor:
”Malzeme gelmeyince ben de burada başka yöntemlerle resim yapmaya çalışıyorum. Kağıt olmayınca gazetenin üzerine çiziyorum. Mor renk için karalahana, kırmızı için bazen kan bazen ezilmiş nar kullanıyorum. Yeşil için de maydanoz veya ot eziyorum. Cezaevi idaresi resim için tehlikeli diyor. Ot ezmek nasıl tehlikeli olur? Gazetelerin, peçetelerin, süt kartonunun üzerine çizdiğim 20 kadar resmimi alıp imha ettiklerini söylediler. Neden imha ediyorlar? Eğer sakıncalı ise saklasınlar, tahliye olunca bana iade etsinler. Ayrıca -şifreli haberleşme olabilir diye- hiçbir kitaba izin verilmiyor. Bu da büyük bir sorun.”
Zehra Doğan