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Behind bars since March 1, Yakın Doğu Haber news website Editor-in-Chief Dursunoğlu has been sentenced to 50 days in prison for “praising an offense and offender.” The court has turned his prison term into a judicial fine and ruled for his release.

Journalist Alptekin Dursunoğlu, the Editor-in-Chief of Yakın Doğu Haber news website, has been arrested as part of an investigation filed into his social media messages on charge of “inciting the public to enmity and hatred.”