MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
İsmail Eskin – trial for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
İsmail Eskin
CITY
Diyarbakır
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
21/11/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Social Media Account
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

Diyarbakır 4th Heavy Penal Court sentenced Journalist İsmail Eskin for allegedly “propagandising for a terrorist organisation” due to his Twitter posts in which he described the land where the military operations held as Kurdistan and reported about the rights violations committed during the curfews in Amed and ISIS attacks on Kobanê. Gaziantep Regional Court Penal Department No. 3 has approved his 3 years 1 month and 15 days of imprisonment.