New investigation opened against Emine Şenyaşar

The Justice Vigil carried out by the Şenyaşar family has reached day 369. The vigil was launched on 9 March 2021 by Emine Şenyaşar, who lost her husband and two sons as a result of the attack carried out by AKP Deputy Ibrahim Halil Yıldız’s bodyguards and relatives, in Suruç, province of Urfa, on 14 June 2018.

The vigil has been carried out since then in front of the Urfa Courthouse by Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit, who survived the attack.

The indictment prepared by the Office of the Chief Public Prosecutor in Urfa on the grounds that Emine Şenyaşar’s speeches contained “insults” was accepted by the 4th Criminal Court of First Instance. In the indictment, Emine Şenyaşar’s words about AKP Urfa MP Ibrahim Halil Yıldız at the Justice Vigil in 2021 were considered as “insults.

The prosecutor demanded that the woman be punished, arguing that she had committed “the crime of publicly insulting a public official” as it was understood that the public official she was talking about was Ibrahim Halil Yıldız, the AKP Urfa MP. However, in the speech under scrutiny, the name of the deputy was not mentioned.

The first hearing of the case will be held in the coming months.

Many investigations were opened against Emine Şenyaşar

During the 376-day Justice Vigil, 14 investigations were launched against Emine Şenyaşar. Two of the investigations that turned into lawsuits are combined and continue under a “simple procedural trial”. In one case, Emine Şenyaşar was given a judicial fine of 265 days.