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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel’s pre-trial detention committed three violations of his human rights.
Almost three years after Yücel was released from prison in Istanbul, the Strasbourg court ruled Tuesday that Yücel’s rights were violated in three instances: He was detained in the absence of plausible reasons to suspect him of committing a crime; he wasn’t awarded sufficient compensation by the Turkish Constitutional Court in a 2019 ruling; and his detention was an “interference” with the exercise of his right to freedom of expression.
Yücel said on Twitter that he still thinks “parts of the judgement are disappointing.” He told German newspaper Die Welt — for which he served as a Turkey correspondent — that it was “disappointing” that the ECHR did not determine that the proceedings were politically motivated and that the judges didn’t rule that torture was another violation of his rights.
Yücel was imprisoned in Turkey in 2017 on the grounds of propaganda on behalf of a terrorist organization and inciting hatred. He was released in 2018 and returned to Germany.
Yücel’s arrest in 2017 prompted a sharp deterioration in relations between Ankara and Berlin. Following a complaint filed to the ECHR in 2017 by Yücel, Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled two years later that the detention had violated Yücel’s rights to personal security and liberty as well as his right to freedom of expression.
Source: Politico
