MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Battery of DHA reporter Arife Defne Arslan by police
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Arife Defne Arslan
CITY
Sivas
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
17/09/2022
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
News Agency
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Journalist
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Access to Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Interferences by the Executive Power
Executive and Administration
Interference of police forces

Filming a fire that broke out in a four-storey building in Sivas, Demirören News Agency (DHA) reporters Arife Defne Arslan and Hüsnü Ümit Avcı were faced with police intervention. Avcı and Arslan filed a criminal complaint against the police officers who attempted to break their cameras (September 17).