MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Perihan Mağden – trial for “insult”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Perihan Mağden
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
24/11/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Internet News Portal
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
Approval of the indictment and initiating the prosecution
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 125/1

The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office filed a lawsuit against journalist-writer Perihan Mağden on the charge of “insult” based on the complaints of Semih Öztürk who is publicly known by the TV shows of “Utopya” and “Survivor”, at the Istanbul Criminal Court of First Instance in October 2017.