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TURKISH COURT UPHOLDS REDUCED SENTENCE FOR HRANT DINK'S KILLER
epress.am
03.22.2012
Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals upheld the prison sentence of late
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink's murderer Ogun Samast on Mar.
21, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.
A juvenile court in Istanbul had sentenced Samast to 22 years and 10
months in prison last July for the "planned murder of Hrant Dink"
and for carrying an "unregistered gun." However, under the Turkish
Penal Code, Samast will not serve the 22 years and 10 months to which
he was sentenced, but will be released after completing two thirds
of his service.
As Samast has already been in jail for the past five years, he will
be released from prison by 2022.
The juvenile court initially condemned Ogun Samast to life, but
reduced the sentence to 21-and-a-half years, on the grounds that he was
underage at the time of the murder, before giving him an additional
16 months for possession of an unlicensed weapon. The court also
decreased Samast's 600 Turkish Lira judicial fine to 300 liras.
Samast was convicted of killing Dink, a Turkish Armenian journalist
and the editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Agos, who was murdered
in front of his newspaper's office in 2007. Samast defended himself
saying he had had a poor education and committed the murder under
the influence of others.
epress.am
03.22.2012
Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals upheld the prison sentence of late
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink's murderer Ogun Samast on Mar.
21, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.
A juvenile court in Istanbul had sentenced Samast to 22 years and 10
months in prison last July for the "planned murder of Hrant Dink"
and for carrying an "unregistered gun." However, under the Turkish
Penal Code, Samast will not serve the 22 years and 10 months to which
he was sentenced, but will be released after completing two thirds
of his service.
As Samast has already been in jail for the past five years, he will
be released from prison by 2022.
The juvenile court initially condemned Ogun Samast to life, but
reduced the sentence to 21-and-a-half years, on the grounds that he was
underage at the time of the murder, before giving him an additional
16 months for possession of an unlicensed weapon. The court also
decreased Samast's 600 Turkish Lira judicial fine to 300 liras.
Samast was convicted of killing Dink, a Turkish Armenian journalist
and the editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Agos, who was murdered
in front of his newspaper's office in 2007. Samast defended himself
saying he had had a poor education and committed the murder under
the influence of others.