Document Type
Report
Publication Date
7-2019
Abstract
Between March and May 2019, TrialWatch monitors under the supervision of the
Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic monitored the trial of Cansu Pişkin, a
journalist for the Turkish daily paper, Evrensel, in Istanbul, Turkey. Pişkin was charged with “making a public servant into a target for terrorist organizations” in violation of Section 6(1) of Law No. 3713, otherwise known as the Anti-Terror Law, for publishing the prosecutor’s name in her April 5, 2018 article, “Special Prosecutor for the Bosphorus Students.” On May 7, 2019, the Court convicted Pişkin and sentenced her to 10 months’ imprisonment (with the sentence pronouncement deferred for a period of five years).
Disciplines
Criminal Law | Criminal Procedure | Human Rights Law | Law
Recommended Citation
Human Rights Institute & Stephen J. Rapp,
Trial Monitoring of People v. Cansu Pişkin (Turkey 2019),
(2019).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/human_rights_institute/12