MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention of Bilal Meyveci
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Bilal Meyveci
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
26/04/2021
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Television
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
Other

Following the press statement held by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) İstanbul Provincial Organization about the Kobane trial on April 26, 2021, Artı TV camera operator Bilal Meyveci and Mezopotamya Agency reporter Muhammed Enes Sezgin were taken into custody. With their equipment damaged, Meyveci and Sezgin were released a few hours later (April 26).