MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Journalist Sabahattin Önkibar – trial for “insulting the President of the Republic”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Sabahattin Önkibar
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
26/09/2022
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Other
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. 299

Charged with “insulting the President of the Republic” (as per the Turkish Penal Code / TCK Article 299), journalist Sabahattin Önkibar had his final hearing at the İstanbul Anadolu 53rd Criminal Court of First Instance. 

The court ruled that the journalist should be sentenced to 11 months, 20 days in prison on the offense charged (September 26).