MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Gökhan Öner – trial for “membership of a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Gökhan Öner
CITY
Denizli
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
08/05/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
News Agency
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Journalist
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Criminal Courts
Deferral the pronouncement of the judgement
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

The DİHA reporter Gökhan Öner and 4 defendants, who were detained on April 28, 2018 and arrested for “membership in a terrorist organisation” are being tried at the Denizli 2nd High Criminal Court. The court decided to the acquittal of Öner, who was the one only inmate on July 27, 2018.

The Court held its decision on April 16, 2019 and acquitted the DİHA reporter, Gökhan Öner, of the charge of  “membership in a terrorist organisation” and sentenced him 10 months for “propagandising for a terrorist organisation”. The pronouncement of the judgement was suspended.