MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Sedef Kabaş – trial for “insulting the President of the Republic”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Sedef Kabaş
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2019
LAST UPDATED
02/10/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Journalist
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Criminal Courts
Sentence to imprisonment
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 299

Journalist-writer Sedef Kabaş was sentenced to 11 months and 20 days of imprisonment for “insulting the President of the Republic” in relation to a case based on an unknown content.