Turkey: Journalist sentenced to prison for report on death of Kurd after police raids

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Journalist sentenced to prison for report on death of Kurd after police raids
By TM - August 7, 2018


Hülya Emeç, a Turkish journalist and member of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), was sentenced by a Turkish court on Monday to six months in prison for reporting on the death of a Kurdish man after a succession of police raids on his home in Van province in 2014.

Emeç, a correspondent for the now-closed pro-Kurdish DİHA news agency, reported that a 48-year-old Şefik Tunuç died of a heart attack after his house in Van was raided by Turkish police three times in a week.

Emeç was handed down a prison sentence on charges related to Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK), which criminalizes denigration of the Turkish nation, the Turkish state, the Turkish Parliament, the government of the Republic of Turkey or the legal institutions of the state.

The Turkish court ruled that the journalist committed the crime of “insulting Turkey’s Law Enforcement Agency” in the headline of the story about the death of Tunuç.

Read more at: https://www.turkishminute.com/2018/08/07/journalist-sentenced-to-prison-for-report-on-death-of-kurd-after-police-raids/

Jailed.