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Facing charges for watching a lynching carried out by others and attending a meting, Ayten Öztürk’s life imprisonment aggravated twice has been upheld.

Anonymous witnesses have been a controversial issue in political trials in Turkey since they were introduced in 2008.

Statements of İ.İ. were used as evidence in several lawsuits against 43 people, including Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD) and Grup Yorum. İ.İ. has confessed that he signed the statement under pressure and his remarks were distorted.

The Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office of Court of the Cassation has demanded that the aggravated life sentence given to death fasting inmate Murat Koçak based on witness statements be upheld as “the evidence is legal.”

Korkmaz has been sentenced to 23 years, 9 months in prison based one the statements of permanent witness İ.Ö. though both the prosecutor’s office and the security directorate said that “he had no links with the organization.”

Calling himself a long-time informant for the police, prisoner İ.Ö. said that they had “warned” a police officer by shooting his son with a gun and he was given a minor sentence thanks to an acquainted judge arranged for him.

Testifying that “he has been an informant since he was 10”, prisoner İ.Ö. filed a complaint against an attorney for calling him an informant for the police. In his defense, the attorney indicated that this description was made by İ.Ö. himself.

After bianet's reports on a self-proclaimed informant who testified in more than a hundred political cases, MPs from the HDP and the TİP have brought the case into the parliamentary agenda.