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Can Dündar lives in exile in Germany
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The lawyers of the journalist Can Dündar have announced that they want to boycott the verdict against their client in Istanbul on Wednesday.
The defenders accused the judges of partiality.
Dündar himself now lives in exile in Germany.
"By defense before the 14th Court for Serious Crimes, we do not want to be part of a practice that gives legitimacy to a previously determined political judgment," the lawyers explained their decision.
The rights of Dündar and his family would be disregarded.
Dündar, who lives in exile in Germany, announced the decision on Twitter.
Dündar are accused of supporting terrorism and "military or political espionage".
The public prosecutor demands up to 35 years imprisonment.
At the last hearing at the beginning of December, the defense requested the judges to be replaced on the grounds that they were not independent.
The application was rejected.
The background to the proceedings against Dündar is a newspaper report from 2015. At that time, the newspaper Cumhuriyet published secret information that was supposed to prove the government's arms deliveries to rebels in Syria.
At the time Dündar was editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet.
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