MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
The trial of Journalist Reyhan Çapan – “propogandising for a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Reyhan Çapan
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
25/06/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Chief Editor
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

Reyhan Çapan, the former editor-in-chief of Özgür Gündem daily newspaper, which was closed by a statutory decree, has been arrested in Artvin. She was previously sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison (14 May).

On January 16, Çapan was released on probation.