Journalist Barış Pehlivan, who is imprisoned in Maltepe Open Prison, is on trial for “insulting a public official” (TCK 125-3) for his article titled “Nauseating story” published in Cumhuriyet newspaper in November 2022.
During the hearing held on November 9 at Istanbul 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance, the judge said, “I have already made my interim decision, Mr. Barış, I will not go back from here.” The trial was adjourned until November 16 (9 November)
Istanbul 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance dismissed the case against journalist Barış Pehlivan after Supreme Court of Appeals member Ömer Faruk Aydıner withdrew his complaint.
In response, Pehlivan’s lawyer Hüseyin Ersöz applied to Istanbul Anatolian 4th Execution Judgeship for release. The judge issued a decision of supervised release (17 November)