MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention of Emre Orman
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Emre Orman
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
01/04/2022
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Social Media Account
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
Taking into custody
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 314/2

As part of an investigation launched on charge of “being a member of an organization”, journalist Emre Orman was taken into custody in a police raid on his house in İstanbul’s Ataşehir on March 30, 2022.

Brought to the İstanbul Security Directorate on Vatan Avenue, Orman was taken to the İstanbul Courthouse in Çağlayan to give his statement at the prosecutor’s office after the related formalities were completed at the security directorate. He was released on the condition that he gave his signature at the law enforcement office closest to his residence once a week (April 1).