MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Özgür Amed – trial for “committing an offence on behalf of an organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Özgür Amed
CITY
Diyarbakır
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2015
LAST UPDATED
25/06/2019
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 LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 220/6

Özgür Gündem newspaper columnist Özgür Amed has been sentenced to 3 years 1 month and 15 days in prison for participating in a demonstration to protest the Roboski massacre on February 23, 2015.

He was released from Diyarbakır prison on June 24, 2017.