Canan Coşkun - trial for “publicly insulting the military or security organization of the state”

Canan Coşkun – trial for “publicly insulting the military or security organization of the state”

RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION

Canan Coşkun

CITY

İstanbul

YEAR OF INTERFERENCE

2017

LAST UPDATED

08/06/2019

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

Deferral the pronouncement of the judgement

THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE

Turkish Penal Code

Art. 301

Cumhuriyet daily correspondent Canan Coşkun has been sentenced to 10 months on the charge of “publicly insulting the military or the security organization of the state” in a news article she had written at the İstanbul 2nd Penal Court of First Instance. The pronouncement of the judgement has been suspended on May 9, 2017.