MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Arzu Demir – trial for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Arzu Demir
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
16/05/2019
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
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

The İstanbul 13rd High Criminal Court sentenced Arzu Demir to 6 years of imprisonment for “propagandising for a terrorist organisation [PKK] in 2017 for her books titled “Dağın Kadın Hali (Womanly State of the Mountain)” and “Devrimin Rojava Hali (Revolution’s State of Rojava)”.