MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention of Muhammet Enes Sezgin
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Muhammed Enes Sezgin
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
10/01/2022
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
Other
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Other Laws

Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporters Muhammet Enes Sezgin and Mahmut Altuntaş were taken into custody while they were covering the demonstration at İstiklal Avenue in protest against the Kadıköy Sub-Governor’s Office’s ban on the “Berbang” concert to be held by the Mesopotamia Cultural Center (MKM) on October 16, 2021. With their statements taken at the Beyoğlu District Security Directorate, the journalists were released in the same evening (October 16). 

A decision of non-prosecution was given in the investigation launched by the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office against the journalists on charge of “violating the Law on Meetings and Demonstrations” (January 10).