Hülya Emeç, a former reporter for DİHA, had written about Şefik Tunuç (48), who died of a heart attack after police raided his house 3 times in 2014 in Gevaş, a district of Van. Emeç’s coverage prompted a court case, in which the dead man’s widow Hafize Tunuç, DİHA Executive Board Chairperson Zekeriya Gözüpek, DİHA responsible managing editor Dicle Müftüoğlu, and DİHA Van bureau chief Ferhat Çelik alongside Emeç were tried for allegedly “publicly degrading the military or security organisations” at the Gevaş Criminal Court of First Instance in Van.
Müftüoğlu, Güzüpek and Çelik were acquitted of the charge on August 6, 2018.