MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention of Yeniçağ newspaper columnist Murat İde
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Murat İde
CITY
Giresun
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2020
LAST UPDATED
08/10/2020
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
Public Prosecution Offices
Taking into custody

İYİ Party Chair Meral Akşener’s press advisor and Yeniçağ columnist Murat İde was taken into custody in a hotel where he was staying in Giresun. Detained over an article that he penned in 2015, a lawsuit was reportedly filed against İde due to this article in 2018.

İde was released from detention after giving his statement (October 8).