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Trial Monitoring Report | January 2022

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Trial Monitoring Report | January 2022
Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) has been running a trial monitoring program since 2018 in cooperation with numerous international civil society organizations. In the program, freedom of expression trials are monitored to ensure that the right to a fair trial, which has been determined as a fundamental human right by numerous treaties and conventions to which Turkey is also a party, is upheld and any violations are recorded. The program continued in January 2022 with the assistance of the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Nine people were sentenced to 515 months in prison

In January, MLSA monitored 37 hearings of 36 trials in 11 different cities with 14 court monitors. In trials monitored in January, 332 people stood trial among which there were 111 students, 91 activists, 44 journalists, 25 politicians, 7 authors, 4 artists, 3 lawyers and 2 academics.    332 people who stood trial in January faced 62 charges in 36 different categories. 44% of the charges individuals faced in January was terrorism-related charges. 93% of the terrorism-related charges were “membership in a terrorist organization” and “making propaganda for a terrorist organization” charges. These charges were leveled against journalists, activists and politicians. 24% of the evidence cited for terrorism-related charges the defendants’ news reports, articles, photos and statements on a television show while 21% was social media posts. In January, “insulting the president” charge constituted 9% of the charges. 60% of the evidence cited for this charge was social media posts. In January, 2 journalists, 4 politicians and 3 activists were sentenced to 515 months in prison. Additionally, journalist Rojhat Doğru was sentenced to life in prison for “disrupting the unity and the integrity of the state.” You can read the full report here.
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Medya ve Hukuk Çalışmaları Derneği (MLSA) haber alma hakkı, ifade özgürlüğü ve basın özgürlüğü alanlarında faaliyet yürüten bir sivil toplum kuruluşudur. Derneğimiz başta gazeteciler olmak üzere mesleki faaliyetleri sebebiyle yargılanan kişilere hukuki destek vermektedir.

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