MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention of Ozan Acıdere
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Ozan Acıdere
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
23/08/2021
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
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
Third-Party Interference
Other
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Other Laws

Journalist Ozan Acıdere was taken into custody along with eight students while he was covering the press statement of Boğaziçi University students against the trustee-rector appointment to their university. Charged with “violating the Law no. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations”, Acıdere was released from detention after giving his statement (August 23).