MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
İmam Canpolat – trial for “praising crime”, “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” and “printing the statements of the organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
İmam Canpolat
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
08/06/2019
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
Sentence to imprisonment

The 22nd High Criminal Court of İstanbul, with the decision dated 14 February 2017,  sentenced Cengiz Baysoy to a fine of 6 thousand TL for having participated in the “Editors-in-Chief on Watch” campaign in solidarity with the closed Özgür Gündem newspaper.

İmam Canpolat was sentenced to 1 year and 3 months of imprisonment due to his article published in Özgür Gündem newspaper the day when he has participated in the in the “Editors-in-Chief on Watch” campaign.