MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Mehmet Çağrı – trial for “membership of a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Mehmet Çağrı
CITY
Tunceli
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
27/04/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Radio
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Editor / Editor-In-Chief
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Criminal Courts
Approval of the indictment and initiating the prosecution
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 314/2

The 1st High Criminal Court of Tunceli released Dersim-Munzur Radio editor-in-chief Mehmet Çağrı, who was charged with “membership in a terrorist organisation” on the grounds that he photographed press releases, marches and events, at his first hearing on 10 November 2017.  Çağrı was on trial for ”taking photos of the group even though he was not a member of the press”. The case was postponed to 31 January 2018.