IPI in Turkey to monitor final Cumhuriyet hearing
(World News Austria)

A delegation from the International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, publishers and leading journalists, will monitor the seventh and final hearing in the criminal trial against more than a dozen journalists and staff members of the independent Turkish daily newspaper Cumhuriyet on spurious terrorism-related charges. IPI Turkey Advocacy Coordinator Caroline Stockford, who will lead the delegation, called the proceedings a `show trial`. `Cumhuriyet and its journalists - who have already spent a collective amount of nine-and-a-half years in pre-trial detention - are being prosecuted...