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Turkey Free Expression Trial Monitoring Report September – 2019

Turkey’s courts continue to prosecute journalism while ignoring fair trial principles

Turkey Free Expression Trial Monitoring Report September – 2019

The International Press Institute (IPI) in collaboration with the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA), today published the third trial monitoring report on freedom of expression cases in Turkey.

This report is part of a programme of monitoring that started in June 2018 and confirms findings of the two earlier reports, published in July and January 2019, that the country’s criminal justice system is failing its people and specifically its journalists by violating fundamental rights to liberty, freedom of expression and a fair trial.

This current report covers 42 hearings (38 cases) involving 202 defendants of which 157 were journalists that took place between June 1 and July 21, 2019.

READ FULL REPORT ON FreeTurkeyJournalists WEBSITE

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