MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Özgür Paksoy – trial for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Özgür Paksoy
CITY
Şırnak
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2019
LAST UPDATED
09/12/2020
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
Sentence to imprisonment
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

Journalist Özgür Paksoy, who worked for DIHA, which was shut down with an emergency decree, has been sentenced to three years, one month and 15 days’ imprisonment on the charges of ‘propagandising for a terrorist organisation’

On December 9, 2020, the 3rd Penal Chamber of the Gaziantep Regional Court of Justice rejected Mezopotamya Agency (MA) editor Özgür Paksoy’s appeal against his prison sentence of 3 years, 1 month, 15 days on charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” (December 9).