dokuz8HABER news website’s Editor-in-Chief Gökhan Biçici has been put on trial on charge of “insulting the President of the Republic” before the İstanbul 8th Criminal Court of First Instance on the grounds of the news report published on the website on June 1, 2020 with the title “Hacker group Anonymous reacts against Erdoğan with Berkin Elvan example”.
At the first hearing on November 25, 2021, the court accepted President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s request for involvement in the case and ruled that an expert report should be prepared. The next hearing will be held on February 17 (November 25).
At the hearing held on February 16, 2022, the court board concluded that Biçici did not act with a criminal intent and ruled for his acquittal (February 17).