Letter from jailed Xwebûn Editor-in-Chief Mehmet Ali Ertaş to Hüseyin Aykol confiscated

A letter to Hüseyin Aykol by jailed Xwebûn newspaper's Editor-in-Chief Mehmet Ali Ertaş was confiscated because of Aykol's writings for Yeni Yaşam newspaper.

A letter sent by Mehmet Ali Ertaş, Editor-in-Chief of Xwebûn newspaper, to journalist Hüseyin Aykol, was seized.

Mehmet Ali Ertaş is one of the 16 Kurdish journalists remanded in custody in Amed on 16 June.

The reason for the confiscation of the letter that journalist Ertaş wrote about his unlawful arrest and sent to journalist Aykol was the "writings by Hüseyin Aykol for Yeni Yaşam newspaper".

The letter that journalist Ertaş wrote in Kurdish from Diyarbakır D-Type Prison and sent to his colleague Eylem Akdağ was seized on the grounds that he "continues to work as a journalist".