MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention of Ömer Ödemiş
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Ömer Ödemiş
CITY
Hatay
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
07/08/2021
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Television
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. 299

TELE 1 TV worker Ömer Ödemiş was detained in Hatay on August 6, 2021. Indicating that there was a final judgement against him on charge of “insulting the President of the Republic” and he paid an administrative fine upon the instruction of the prosecutor, Ödemiş was released from detention afterwards (August 7).