MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention of Dokuz8 Haber reporter Fatoş Erdoğan
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Fatoş Erdoğan
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2020
LAST UPDATED
25/10/2020
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
Third-Party Interference
Physical Interference

Fatoş Erdoğan, a reporter for the Dokuz8 Haber news portal, was detained by the police by being battered while she was covering the statement for the press wanted to be held by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Youth Assembly, New Democrat Youth, Revolutionary Student Union and Youth’s Revolutionary Forces (DEV-GÜÇ) members in Kadıköy, İstanbul on October 25, 2020. Taking the journalist into custody during their intervention into the press statement, the police first took Erdoğan to the detention vehicle, then released her (October 25).