Gevaş Criminal Court of First Instance sentenced journalist Hülya Emeç to imprisonment due to ‘public denigration of the security organization’ through her news article, entitled, “His heart could not take gun pointed to him by the police during house raid.”
In the lawsuit filed against the journalist related to the news on the death of 48-year-old Şefik Tunuç, who died after a heart-attack followed by police raiding his house in Gevaş district of Van for three times in 2014, Dicle News Agency (DIHA) reporter Emeç and the wife of Tunuç were sentenced to 6 months of imprisonment in accordance with Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK). The court deferred the announcement of the verdict. The agency’s Executive Board Chairman Zekeriya Güzüpek, Editor-In-Chief Dicle Müftüoğlu and Van Office Chief Ferhat Çelik were acquitted after standing trial within the same case.
07.08.2018
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