A lawsuit was filed against actress Berna Laçin with an imprisonment claim for up to one year due to her tweet against capital punishment. Laçin reacted against the debates to bring capital punishment back after continuous news on child abuse, writing on Twitter: “If the death penalty was a solution, then the lands of Medina would not break records in the number of rape incidents. Let scientists, neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social scientists and lawyers find solutions in collaboration. Governments don’t build societies with voices from tribunes.” Due to this tweet, Laçin was charged with ‘public denigration of religious values adopted by a part of society.’
In the indictment, accepted by Istanbul Anatolian 59th Criminal Court of First Instance, the Prosecutor’s Office stated that disrespectful attitudes against religious values must be avoided while expressing opinions and that statements on a city that is considered holy by Muslims carry a quality that is intending to disrupt public peace. Laçin spoke about the investigation against her on the matter, saying, “Why do you correlate Medina directly with Islam instead of considering it an Arabian province? Would I be insulting Christians if I said something negative about Sweden?”
25.07.2018
haberturk.com