MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Barış İnce – trial for “insulting the President of the Republic”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Barış İnce
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2016
LAST UPDATED
11/11/2019
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. 299

Barış İnce, the former Managing Editor of daily BirGün, presented the related acrostic statement of defense as part of an investigation launched against him for the news article “They made a double highway to their pockets” published on BirGün newspaper.

The İstanbul 2nd Penal Court of First Instance ruled that journalist Barış İnce should be sentenced to 21 months of imprisonment on the charge of “insulting the President of the Republic” with his acrostic statement of defense and the sentence was not deferred. After the Supreme Court of Appeals reversed this judgement and the case was heard again, the journalist has now been sentenced to 11 months, 20 days in prison.