MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
İbrahim Çoşkun – trial for “membership of a terrorist organization”, “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
İbrahim Coşkun
CITY
Manisa
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
08/05/2019
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
Decision of acquittal
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

The 4th High Criminal Court of Manisa, with the decision dated July 1, 2018, acquitted the journalist İbrahim Coşkun of the “membership in a terrorist organisation” and “propagandising for a terrorist organisation” charges due to having Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper in his car. In accordance with this decision, the letter from the Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office stated that there was no confiscation order on the newspapers dated 25 August 2016.