MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention of Hacı Boğatekin
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Hacı Boğatekin
CITY
Adıyaman
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
04/02/2022
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Social Media Account
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

As part of an investigation launched into his social media post about İstanbul Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu on August 28, 2021, Gerger Fırat newspaper’s Grant Holder and Editor-in-Chief Hacı Boğatekin was taken into custody on February 4, 2022 as per the warrant issued by the İstanbul Büyükçekmece 3rd Criminal Judgeship of Peace on charge of “provoking the public to hatred and hostility”. After his statement was taken at the prosecutor’s office, Boğatekin was released (February 4).