MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Yeni Çağ Reporter Yavuz Selim Demirağ on Trial
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Yavuz Selim Demirağ
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2019
LAST UPDATED
08/10/2019
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
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 125/3

Imprisoned on June 13 for having insulted President and ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, daily Yeniçağ columnist and Türkiyem TV program producer Yavuz Selim Demirağ was released from prison on probation on July 14.