Hatice Duman

Hatice Duman (born April 5, 1974 in Malatya) is a Kurdish journalist and editor-in-chief of the daily Atılım (The Leap), the official newspaper of the Marxist–Leninist Communist Party (MLKP) in Turkey. Since April 9, 2003, she has been in prison, accused of being a manager of a terrorist organisation. On October 16, 2012, Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals confirmed the sentence of life-time imprisonment against her. Duman was convicted of making propaganda and being a member of the banned Marxist Leninist Communist Party (MLKP), and given a lifetime sentence in 2011.

According to a report by Füsun Erdoğan, Duman said: "the state employed all its violence and repression to prevent us from perceiving, seeing and writing the truth. All the issues we published were confiscated, and we were prevented from following the news. Our cameras and recorders were broken. They seized our computers. They filed suits against the confiscated issues of our newspaper."

She is currently held in Bakırköy Prison in İstanbul.