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Judicial fine to Hüseyin Aykol for “insulting the President of Republic” upheld
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Hüseyin Aykol
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
08/05/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
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
Imposing the fines
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 299

The 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance in Istanbul and İstanbul High Criminal Court sentenced the executives of now-shuttered Özgür Gündem Eren Keskin and Reyhan Çapan to fines of 28000 Turkish Liras, which was converted from the prison sentence, for the charge of allegedly “insulting the President of Republic” over three cases.

The columnist of the paper, Hüseyin Aykol was also sentenced to pay fines of 7000 Turkish Liras over one of his news articles. All sentences were upheld by the Court of Appeal (27 November 2018).