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ECHR condemns Turkey again for violations of freedom of expression

2021-05-04T17:21:03.435Z


The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday, May 4, condemned Turkey, for two different cases, for having violated freedom ...


The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday (May 4th) condemned Turkey, for two different cases, for having violated the freedom of expression of a journalist and a deputy.

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Unanimously in the first case, by a majority in the second, the judges of the judicial institution of the Council of Europe considered that Turkey had violated Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights which protects freedom of expression. The first petition filed by Banu Güven, a well-known journalist in Turkey, concerns a provisional injunction "

prohibiting the dissemination and publication (by any means of communication) of information relating to a parliamentary inquiry into allegations of corruption directed against four former ministers

”in 2013. The Court considered that this injunction“

had significant repercussions on the exercise by the applicant of her right to freedom of

expression on a topical subject ”.

Turkey was ordered to pay 1,500 euros "

for costs and expenses

" to the journalist, who had not submitted a claim for compensation. At the end of 2013, Banu Güven was a political commentator and news anchor on the national television channel IMC-TV. In the fall of 2016, this channel, which defended the rights of the Kurdish minority, was closed live, as part of the state of emergency established after the failed coup of July 2016.

In the second case, Turkey was ordered to pay 5,000 euros for non-pecuniary damage and 4,000 euros for costs and expenses to the MP of the Prokurdist party HDP Filiz Kerestecioglu Demir, whose parliamentary immunity was lifted in 2016 in the framework of constitutional reform. She is still the subject of criminal proceedings in Turkey for her participation in February 2016 in a political meeting, where slogans deemed "

provocative

" by the police

were said to have been chanted

. This reform of the constitution "

aimed to limit the political discourse of parliamentarians

" in a context of "the

fight against terrorism

", explains the ECHR in a press release.

Turkey is regularly condemned by the ECHR for human rights violations, committed in particular after the attempted coup of July 2016, which was followed by major purges in the army, justice, media and NGOs .

Source: lefigaro

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