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DİHA reporter İdris Sayılğan – The trial for “membership in a terrorist organization and propaganda” -2
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
İdris Sayılgan
CITY
Muş
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2019
LAST UPDATED
08/01/2020
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
Approval of the indictment and initiating the prosecution
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 314/2

A lawsuit has been filed against journalist İdris Sayılgan while he was in prison pending trial for allegedly “propagandising for a terrorist organisation”. Journalist is standing trial for 7 news article he shared through facebook. 3 of them had already been considered as evidence at the trial in which he was had been convicted for “being a member of a terrorist organization” and “terrorist propaganda”. The first hearing of the case was held on Janaury 8, 2020 at the 2nd High Criminal Court of Muş (ACM). His lawyer Mustafa Murtezaoğlu requested additional time for a defence. The trial has been adjourned to March 25.