MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Bedran Babat – trial for “degrading security forces”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Bedran Babat
CITY
Van
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
09/06/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
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
Suspension of the execution of the sentences of imprisonment
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 301

The Criminal Court of First Instance of Gevaş district of Van, with the decision dated 23 February 2018, sentenced journalists Bedran Babat ve Mustafa Ece to 5 months of imprisonment for “publicly degrading the military or security organisations” due to the news articled, titled “Gevaş Emniyeti seçmenleri fişliyor (Gevaş Police department is tagging voters)” published on June 2, 2015. The prison sentences were deferred.

Chair of DİHA news agency Zekeriya Gözüpek and journalist Ferhat Çelik were acquitted of the same charge.