Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality Trustee and tender commission members filed an “insult” lawsuit (art. 125/3) against Tigris Haber newspaper’s publication coordinator Naci Sapan, on the grounds that he insulted them for his article titled “Trustee and trustees”. The journalist, who was tried at Diyarbakır 5th Criminal Court of First Instance and requested to be imprisoned, presented his defense to the court with his lawyers on 22 March (22 March).