European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) debated the legality of the provision, “Any person who aids and abets an organisation knowingly and willingly, although he does not belong to the structure of that organisation, shall also be sentenced for the offence of being a member of that organisation” within Article 220/7 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK) in the application of Democratic People’s Party (DEHAP) Batman Central District Chairman Abdulcelil İmret. The court decided that the article is “unpredictable and is interpreted excessively widely.”
Turkey was sentenced to pay 7,500 Euros of moral indemnity and 2,424 Euros of court expended to Imret within the file. Imret has previously been sentenced to 6 years and three months of imprisonment by Diyarbakır 4th Assize Court and the verdict was carried to the European Court of Human Rights in 2010, after the approval of the Court of Appeals.
12.07.2018
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