MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Access block to news on former Şanlıurfa AKP Youth Branch Chair’s attendance at meetings – Cumhuriyet newspaper
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Cumhuriyet Newspaper
CITY
Şanlıurfa
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2020
LAST UPDATED
13/10/2020
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Internet News Portal
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Media Outlet
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Criminal Peace Judgeships
Decision to block access
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Law on Regulating Broadcasting (Publication) in the Internet and Fighting Against Crimes Committed by Means of Such Broadcasting
Art. 9

The Şanlıurfa 1st Criminal Judgeship of Peace has imposed an access block on the news that were published on the websites of Cumhuriyet and Sözcü newspapers and Gerçek Gündem news website and indicated that the former AKP Şanlıurfa Youth Branch Chair who had sparked reactions over a video where he called on “the poor to leave him alone while he was enjoying himself” in his bathroom was still attending the meetings (October 14).