MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Attack on journalist Murat Yıldız
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Murat Yıldız
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2019
LAST UPDATED
22/12/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Journalist
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Third-Party Interference
Physical Interference

Reporter Murat Yıldız was battered by police officers while covering the horse-driven carriage crisis in İstanbul’s Princes’ Island; he was subjected to severe insults and taken into custody (December 22).