MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention of Zekeriya Gözüpek
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Zekeriya Gözüpek
CITY
Diyarbakır
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
07/06/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
News Agency
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Editor / Editor-In-Chief
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Public Prosecution Offices
Taking into custody
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 220/6

DİHA Executive Board Chairperson Zekeriya Güzüpek and Kurdish section editor Mehmet Ali Ertaş of Dicle News Agency, which was closed through statutory decree noç 675, have been detained in a house raid on May 31, 2017. In their 7-day interrogation on the suspicion of terror-related acts, they have been asked if they were members of non-governmental organisations and they had code-names. They have been released on June 6, 2017.