MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Editors-in-Chief on Watch campaign in solidarity with Özgür Gündem – Şanar Yurdatapan
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Şanar Yurdatapan
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
15/05/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
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
Criminal Courts
Suspension of the execution of the sentences of imprisonment
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

İstanbul 22. Assize Criminal Court rendered its verdict on January 13, 2017 on the case where human rights defenders Şanar Yurdatapan and Aydın Bodur was tried for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” and “printing terrorist propaganda”.

The court found Yurdatapan guilty and sentenced him to 10 months of imprisonment due to “printing terrorist propaganda” which was turned over to 6000 TL judiciary fine and 1 year 3 months of imprisonment for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”. The execution of the prison sentence was suspended. The court board have concluded the same verdict for Aydın Bodur.

Thus, the first decision of the cases filed against participants of the Solidarity Campaign of Özgür Gündem’s Editor-in-Chiefs was made.

On April 14, 2017, the Court of Appeal upheld the decision which sentenced Yurdatapan.