Journalists across Turkey currently face significant restrictions on their right to a fair trial as guaranteed by Turkish and international human rights law. Among the restrictions are new regulations preventing journalists from attending their trials in person and forcing them instead to give evidence via a video-conference system known by the acronym SEGBİS.

Kurdish journalists jailed in Turkey face particular challenges in defending their rights in court. In many cases, they are imprisoned hundreds of miles from the court in which they are being tried. The distances involved hamper the defendants’ family vists and access to legal support. Some defendants never appear in person before a judge or […]

Türkiye’de bugün gazeteciler, Türkiye Anayasası ve diğer uluslararası insan hakları sözleşmelerinin garanti altına aldığı adil yargılanma hakkından büyük ölçüde mahrum bırakılırak, belirli kısıtlamalara maruz kalıyor. Bu kısıtlamaların başında, gazetecilerin duruşmalarına fiziken katılmaları engellenerek, SEGBİS denen video-konferans bağlantısıyla bağlanmaları geliyor.

Seda (Seher) Taşkın, a journalist for Turkey’s Mezopotomya News Agency who has been held in pretrial detention for over six months, appeared before a court on July 2, 2018 for the second hearing in a case brought for her news articles and reporting from eastern Turkey. Taşkın was arrested at her home in Ankara on […]