[2] Her painting depicts the destruction of the Nusaybin, town in southeastern Turkey, after the clashes between state security forces and Kurdish PKK insurgents.

[7] On 2 March 2017, she was acquitted of the charge of "belonging to an illegal organisation", but was sentenced to 2 years, 9 months and 22 days in jail for her news reporting and posting a painting to social media.

[14] On 19 October 2023, the Court of Cassation ruled on the appeal of Zehra Doğan, who had served a prison sentence for "propaganda in favor of an illegal organization".

It declared that the court had made an "error" in assessing the evidence and sentenced Zehra Doğan to a prison term when it should have handed down an acquittal.

[15] Following a second trial on 9 May 2024, she was acquitted of all charges relating to "terrorist propaganda" due to the lack of legal basis for these accusations at the conclusion of her retrial.

The novelist Aslı Erdoğan and the forensic doctor and human rights defender Şebnem Korur Fincancı are interviewed, Doğan participates by correspondence from the prison, and she is represented by animated sequences voiced by the actress Kasia Smoutniak.