MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention of Zemo Ağgöz
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Zemo Ağgöz
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
27/10/2022
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
Criminal Courts
Other

As part of an Ankara-based investigation, Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporter Zemo Ağgöz was detained in a house raid on October 25, 2022. Having deposed at the Ankara Security Directorate for 3 hours, Ağgöz was taken to the Ankara Courthouse.

Asked about her colleagues and news during the interrogation, Ağgöz was released to house arrest and on probation by the Criminal Judgeship of Peace (October 27).