The Constitutional Court has ruled that an individual application dated 18 July 2018 by İdris Sayılğan, a journalist who had been released by a court of appeal after spending 1,137 days behind bars, was without merit in which journalist İdris Sayılğan. In his application, Sayılğan alleged that his right to personal freedom and security and right to a fair trial was violated.
Closed Dicle News Agency (DİHA) reporter Sayılğan was arrested and sent to Trabzon Prison on October 24, 2016 on charges of “membership of a terrorist organization” and “propagandising for a terrorist organisation”
