MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention of Ergün Demir
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Ergün Demir
CITY
Kocaeli
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
06/12/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Internet News Portal
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

Journalist Ergün Demir, the Chief Editor of the Astakos news website, was taken into custody on September 21, 2018 for his news article, through which he was targetted afterwards, about the worker İsmail Devrim who committed suicide due to he could not buy clothes for his son in Kocaeli. He was released from detention without judicial control.