MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention of Vildan Atmaca
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Vildan Atmaca
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
22/08/2022
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Internet News Portal
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

As part of an investigation launched against her over the news that she had reported in 2015 and 2016, Vildan Atmaca, a reporter for the Gazete Şujin newspaper, which was closed by a Statutory Decree, was taken into custody in a house raid in İstanbul on February 14, 2022. 

Atmaca was released on probation on February 22 after her statement was taken at the prosecutor’s office (February 22).

Taken into custody for eight days and imposed being an agent in the meanwhile, Atmaca was given a decision of non-prosecution in the investigation 6 months later (August 22).