MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Harun Epli – trial for “publishing the statements of a terrorist organization”, “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Harun Epli
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
06/12/2019
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
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

The 22nd High Criminal Court of Istanbul sentenced the editor-in-chief for Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper, Ersin Çaksu and the former chief editor of Özgürlükçü Demokrasi Harun Epli to 3 years 9 months and 10 days of imprisonment for each for “publishing the statements of the terrorist organisation” “propagandising for a terrorist organisation” on January 13, 2017.