Paintings of Jailed Journalist Zehra Doğan Become Feast Cards

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Gülüstan Kılıç Koçyiğit, the Muş MP of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and the Co-Spokesperson of the Peoples' Democratic Congress (HDK), have the paintings of the jailed journalist and painter Zehra Doğan printed on cards. She has sent the cards to the imprisoned MPs and Co-Mayors to wish them a happy Sacrifice Feast.

Koçyiğit has stated, "The paintings of Zehra Doğan have long gone beyond the high prison walls woven with wire fences, they are everywhere now."

She has also added, "Zehra painted the picture of reality. Zehra will continue painting just to spite the ones who are afraid of the picture of reality and we will spread her paintings everywhere."

About Zehra Doğan

Born in 1989, Zehra Doğan graduated from the Department of Painting Teaching at Dicle University in Turkey's southeastern province of Diyarbakır. She worked as a reporter at Jin News Agency (JİNHA) between 2012 and 2016, when the agency was closed by a Statutory Decree.

Doğan worked in Mardin and its vicinity since July 24, 2015, when conflicts erupted and curfews were declared in the region.

Zehra Doğan was granted Metin Göktepe Journalism Award for his news report entitled "The Scream of Yazidi Women," which was about the women subjected to violence by ISIS (Islamic State of Syria and Iraq) in Shingal.

She has been behind bars since June 2017

Zehra Doğan, who had been in Mardin Type E Prison for 4.5 months, was released at the first hearing of the lawsuit brought on charges of "propagandizing for a terrorist organization" and "being a member of an illegal organization" and held held at Mardin 2nd Heavy Penal Court on December 9, 2016. The court ruled that Doğan be acquitted of "membership of an illegal organization" and be released from prison pending trial on charge of "propagandizing for a terrorist organization."

Doğan, whose trial continued at Mardin 2nd Heavy Penal Court, was acquitted of "being a member of an illegal organization" in early March 2017. Zehra Doğan has then been sentenced to 2 years, 9 months and 22 days in prison on the grounds of social media posts that she made between December 21, 2015 - December 9, 2016 as well as making a news report from the notes of a 10-year-old boy in the district of Nusaybin in Turkey's southeastern province of Mardin. Her prison sentence was upheld on June 2, 2017. Doğan was arrested on June 12, 2017. (AS/SD)