MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention of Sezgin Kartal
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Sezgin Kartal
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
06/05/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
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
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

Sezgin Kartal, editor of “Sosyalist Dayanışma magazine”, was detained on 25 May 2017 at the Çağlayan Courthouse in Istanbul as his 18-month prison sentence for “propagandising for a terrorist organisation” due to his piece in the magazine published in April 2016, was upheld. The decision was taken by the 13th High Criminal Court of Istanbul on 17 January 2017.