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Özgür Gündem Trials – The Editors-in-Chief on Watch Campaign – Said Sefa
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Said Sefa
CITY
İstanbul
LAST UPDATED
15/05/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Editor / Editor-In-Chief
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Criminal Courts
Approval of the indictment and initiating the prosecution
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

Closed Özgür Gündem newspaper’s Editor-in-Chief on Watch solidarity campaign was launched on May 3, 2016 and ended on August 7, 2016. 56 people joined the campaign. 50 of the attendees faced prosecution. Of the prosecuted, files of the 38 have been turned into cases.

Having attended the solidarity campaign with Özgür Gündem, Said Sefa is standing trial for “ propagandising for a terrorist organisation” at the 22nd High Criminal Court in Istanbul.