MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention of Jiyar Gol
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Jiyar Gol
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
27/04/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Internet News Portal
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
Judicial Interference
Public Prosecution Offices
Other

Being detained in the airport, BBC correspondent Jiyar Golol announced on his Twitter account that he was kept for five hours and then deported. He said on Twitter that “Yesterday, I was detained in Istanbul airport, searched, interrogated then deported, reasons my reports for the BBC”.