6 July 2006

Alert

Editor's trial adjourned until December as judicial harassment continues


Incident details

Hrant Dink, Arat Dink, Serkis Seropyan, Aydin Engin

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(RSF/IFEX) - The trial of Hrant Dink, the managing editor of the weekly "Agos", has again been adjourned, this time until December 2006. He was charged in October 2005 with trying to influence the course of justice by criticising the suspended six-month prison sentence he had received for "insulting Turkish identity." In all, he has been hounded by the judicial authorities for more than a year.

Citing the principle of free expression, a provincial court acquitted him of the insult charge on 10 February, but this ruling was subsequently overturned by a higher appeals court in the capital, Ankara. Dink's son, Arat, and two other "Agos" journalists, Aydin Engin and Serkis Seropiyan, are also to be tried on the same charge of trying to influence the course of justice. They all face up to three years in prison.



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Updates to this story

Editor, license owner of "Agos" magazine convicted of "insult to Turkishness" 15 October 2007 WPFC concerned about journalist Arat Dink, who faces up to three years in prison; calls for reform to insult law 26 June 2007 In various legal actions against "Agos" newspaper staff, some acquitted, others still facing charges 19 June 2007

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