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Former lawyer of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Mustafa Doğan İnal, obtained a court order blocking access to 117 news articles and posts about himself, including four from bianet. İnal had again imposed censorship on hundreds of other news articles previously.

While the court acquitted Doğan Ergün and İzel Sezer of "insult" and "libel," it convicted the journalists of "disclosure of personal data."

"It is not necessary to be a lawyer to understand that there is no crime in this news report," said Nazan Özcan's lawyer in the hearing. Özcan was acquitted by the court.

President Erdoğan's former lawyer had sued Nazan Özcan over an article on bianet. The article did not contain "libel" and "defamation," according to the prosecutor.

The investigation has been opened after a complaint by a former lawyer of President Erdoğan, over 100 articles about whom were previously censored by courts.

Previously, a court had blocked 130 articles, including two news reports on bianet, about Mustafa Doğan İnal.

The blocked articles, including those on bianet and the Media Monitoring Database, were about bribery allegations against the lawyer.