MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention of Ergin Çağlar
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Ergin Çağlar
CITY
Kahramanmaraş
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
06/12/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
News Agency
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

Ergin Çağlar, the reporter of Mezopotamya Agency, was taken into custody during the road control of the gendarmerie in the district of Pazarbaşı in Maraş on the ground that “there is a search warrant issued for him”  on July 24, 2018.Çağlar has been released after giving his deposition.