Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg said he was shocked by court’s judgment on Hrant Dink case, Today’s Zaman reports.

“I was very surprised by the court’s ruling on Tuesday. I was even more surprised to hear the prosecutor and judge in the case were also dissatisfied with the outcome,” he said speaking during discussions of his “Human Rights in Europe” report in Istanbul.

Mentioning about murders of journalists throughout Europe, he said “no effort must be spared in apprehending and bringing to justice not only the actual killers, but also those who ordered these murders.”

To note, on Tuesday, the Turkish court found Yasin Hayal guilty of planning and organizing Armenian journalist Hrant Dink’s murder, and sentenced him to life in prison. Erhan Tuncel, on the other hand, was found not guilty of prompting Dink’s murder, and, instead, he was sentenced to 10 years and 6 months for an explosion in a McDonald’s store.

Earlier, Hrant Dink’s actual killer, Ogun Samast, was sentenced to a total of 22 years and 10 months for Dink’s murder and for bearing illegal arms. But Samast was tried at a juvenile court, since he was a minor at the time of the murder.