MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Mustafa Hoş – trial for “insult”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Mustafa Hoş
CITY
İstanbul
LAST UPDATED
25/04/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Ethical
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
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 125/1

The 17th Criminal Court of First Instance of İstanbul, with the decision dated 15 January 2018, ruled acquittal of journalist Mustafa Hoş for “insult” because he called “pedophilia defender” to the President of “Sosyal Doku Vakfı”, Nurettin Yıldız, who issued a fatwa, saying “6-year-old child can be married”