MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Sertaç Kayar – trial for “marking a counterterrorism official as a target”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Sertaç Kayar
CITY
Diyarbakır
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
06/05/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
News Agency
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. 6/1

The 9th High Criminal Court of Diyarbakır acquitted photojournalist for Sputnik and Reuters Agency, Sertaç Kayar, who was accused of “marking a counterterrorism official as a target” on the grounds that two police officers were seen in the photo he has taken at the 8th of March International Women’s Day activities, as the act “does not constitute a crime”