Early years
Hatice Duman was born in the eastern province ofJournalistic career
She began working as a reporter for Atılım in 1996 and in 1997 started working on the chief editor's desk for the same newspaper.Imprisonment
The police raided Duman's house on April 9, 2003, claiming Duman was someone they were searching for in relation to two robberies. Duman was convicted of making propaganda and being a member of the banned Marxist Leninist Communist Party (MLKP), and given a lifetime sentence in 2011. According to a report by Füsun Erdoğan, Duman said: "the state employed all its violence and repression to prevent us from perceiving, seeing and writing the truth. All the issues we published were confiscated, and we were prevented from following the news. Our cameras and recorders were broken. They seized our computers. They filed suits against the confiscated issues of our newspaper." She is currently held in Bakırköy Prison in İstanbul.See also
*List of arrested journalists in TurkeyReferences
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