MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Seyfi Şahin – trial for “degrading the religious values of a section of the public”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Seyfi Şahin
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
07/05/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Religious
MEDIUM
Print Media
Periodicals
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Chief Editor
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. 216/3

The 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance, with the decision dated 24 May 2018, sentenced editor in chief Seyfi Şahin for the now-closed down humor magazine Gırgır, sentenced to 1 year 15 days of imprisonment for “degrading the religious values of a section of the public” due to his cartoon depicting Moses, published on February 15, 2018 in Gırgır Magazine