MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
The former Batman representative for Azadiya Welat newspaper Deniz Kılıç is on trial – “propagandising for a terrorist organisation”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Deniz Kılıç
CITY
Batman
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2019
LAST UPDATED
28/11/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Social Media Account
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
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

The 2nd High Criminal Court of Batman sentenced the former representative of now-closed Azadiya Welat newspaper by decree-law, Deniz Kılıç to 3 years 1 month and 15 days of imprisonment for “propagandising for a terrorist organisation” on the grounds of the news articles that he has shared in social media between the years 2014 and 2015 (28 November)