MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Emre Soncan – trial for “membership of a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Emre Soncan
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
13/05/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Book
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
Sentence to imprisonment
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 314/2

 İstanbul 25th High Criminal Court sentenced the defense reporter for now-shuttered daily Zaman and writer of the book called “Son Akıncı: Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu’nun Sır Ölümü”, Emre Soncan to 7 years and 6 months of imprisonment for “membership in a terrorist organisation [FETÖ]” on the grounds of “defaming investigations in the scope of the anti-terror operations and praising the terrorist organisation[FETÖ]” (10 April 2018)