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Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink's murderer walked free in Turkey Wednesday while the government's critics pointed aghast to political prisoners held years beyond the court's authority to keep them.
ISTANBUL, MARCH 26, ARMENPRESS. An Istanbul court sentenced two former police chiefs on March 26 to aggravated life imprisonment for their roles in covering up the murder of Hrant Dink, the Turkish-Armenian journalist who was shot dead 14 years ago, Turkish media reported. 4 other former security officers were also given life sentences.
Kyrgyz authorities have arrested a Turkish citizen suspected of being involved in the 2007 killing of a prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist in Istanbul.