MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention of Çağlar Özbilgin
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Çağlar Özbilgin
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
06/12/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
News Agency
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Editor / Editor-In-Chief
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Public Prosecution Offices
Taking into custody
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 216/1

The editor for sendika.org, Çağlar Özbilgin was taken in custody at Istanbul’s Çağlayan Courthouse where he was going to attend his trial on claim of “insulting the President of the Republic” on the grounds that there was another investigation into him for “Provoking the Public to Hatred, Hostility” on May 11, 2017.