MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Trial over the attack against Hürriyet newspaper
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Hürriyet Daily Newspaper
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
06/05/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Media Outlet
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Third-Party Interference
Other

The Bakırköy 5th Criminal Court of First Instance, with the decision dated 27 November 2018, acquitted 25 defendants and sentenced 1 defendant in the case where 26 defendants were charged with violating the “immunity of houses ”and “damaging the property” for the attacks on 6 and 8 September 2015 against the Hürriyet newspaper in Bağcılar.

A defendant who was sentenced to 1 year 8 months imprisonment for “violating the immunity of the workplace at night” and 2 thousand TL judicial fine for “damaging the property”.