MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention of journalist Hakkı Boltan
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Hakkı Boltan
CITY
Diyarbakır
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2020
LAST UPDATED
19/02/2020
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
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
Criminal Peace Judgeships
Imposition of judicial control measures
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

Seven people including Hakkı Boltan, the spokesperson of the Free Journalists Initiative (ÖGİ) and Yeni Yaşam newspaper correspondent and HDP Provincial Organization administrator Abdurrahim Alçiçek  were taken into custody on 19 February 2020 during police raids in Diyarbakır on allegations of  “propagandising for a terrorist organisation” and “acting on behalf of terrorist organisation”.

Boltan and six others were released by the court under judicial control measures and international travel bans on February 20.