MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Trial in which journalist Oktay Candemir is tried for “propagandising for a terrorist organisation”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Oktay Candemir
CITY
Van
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
07/05/2019
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
Sentence to imprisonment
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

The 4th High Criminal Court of Van, with the decision dated 19 September 2017, sentenced Oktay Candemir to 1 year and 6 months imprisonment for “propagandising for terrorist organisation”. The prison sentence was suspended.