Objection to the detention of journalist İsmail Arı was rejected... 'Catalog crime' justification from the court

The objection to the detention of BirGün reporter İsmail Arı, who has been detained in Sincan Prison for 16 days, was rejected.

In the court's three-paragraph rejection decision, it was claimed that the accusation against Arı was among the catalog crimes. However, the crime of "publicly disseminating misleading information to the public" regulated in Article 217/A of the Turkish Penal Code, for which Arı was arrested, is in accordance with Article 100/3 of the Criminal Code. It is not among the catalog crimes listed in the article.

The objection to the detention of BirGün reporter İsmail Arı was rejected. The 16-page objection petition submitted by Arı's lawyer Taylan Arı on November 3 was rejected by the high criminal court with three paragraphs of justification. The court decided to continue Arı's detention.

Evaluating the decision, Arı's lawyer Taylan Arı stated that the court ruled for the continuation of detention without providing concrete reasons. Lawyer Arı said, "Our objection regarding İsmal's detention was rejected by the High Criminal Court on a number of abstract grounds, including the statement 'The crime charged against the defendant is among the catalog crimes listed in Article 100/3 of the CMK.' The court rejected the objection with stereotypical expressions, without concretizing the remaining justifications. However, Article 217/A of the TCK, under which İsmail Arı was arrested, is among the catalog crimes under the CMK provision specified in the decision." "Not even," he said.

HE WILL APPEAR IN FRONT OF A JUDGE ON NOVEMBER 19

BirGün reporter İsmail Arı, who was detained at the Ankara Police Department where he went of his own free will to testify upon the complaint of former RTÜK Chairman Ebubekir Şahin, was arrested by the judgeship to which he was brought on October 21.

After the arrest decision, Arı reacted to the decision by saying, "The judge didn't even listen, he interrupted the lawyers. They are sending me to prison once again for a crime for which there is no sentence."

Arı, for whom a prison sentence of up to 5 years is sought, will appear before a judge in Ankara on November 19. Arı was arrested last March and spent 75 days in prison.