Turkish courts hand down 889 life sentences in coup trials to date

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Turkish courts hand down 889 life sentences in coup trials to date
April 22, 2018

Turkish courts have thus far handed down 889 life sentences in 137 cases involving a failed coup in 2016, according to the state-run Anadolu news agency.

A total of 285 cases were launched against coup suspects, Anadolu said, adding that 889 verdicts of life imprisonment were handed down in 137 of those cases.

Of the 889 rulings, 392 were aggravated life sentences, or life in prison without the possibility of parole

Read more at: https://www.turkishminute.com/2018/04/22/turkish-courts-hand-down-889-life-sentences-in-coup-trials-to-date/

It seems pretty obscene.