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Four well-known columnists were retried after the Court of Cassation overturned a verdict against them in 2020.

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has, for the third time, concluded that journalist Şahin Alpay’s “right to personal liberty and security” has been violated. This last application was about the house arrest given to the journalist in 2018.

After the second Constitutional Court decision, ruling that his rights have been violated, journalist Şahin Alpay, who was in jail for 20 months, has been released from Silivri Prison on house arrest.

In its ruling about Şahin Alpay, who is still in jail despite a verdict of violation, the Constitutional Court has again ruled that Alpay’s rights have been violated on the ground that the first verdict of violation has not been implemented.

İstanbul 14th Heavy Penal Court has rejected Constitutional Court’s decision to release journalist Şahin Alpay on the ground that right violation occurred against Alpay. The penal court ruled continuation of Altan’s arrest.

Courts have ruled continuation of arrest of Şahin Alpay and Mehmet Altan despite Constitutional Court ruling that their “right to personal freedom and security” and “freedom of expression and press” have been violated.

Arrested defendant former Zaman daily columnist Şahin Alpay said, “I am innocent. I just exercised my freedom of expression secured by the Constitution and the European Court of Human Rights”.

The European People’s Party in the EP has penned a letter to act in solidarity with Şahin Alpay, who has been in prison for 11 years. The other four groups had written to Kadri Gürsel, Nazlı Ilıcak, Musa Kart and Ahmet Şık in the past.