MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention to Sena Şat from Önsöz magazine
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Sena Şat
CITY
İstanbul
LAST UPDATED
09/10/2023
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Periodicals
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Other
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. 314/1

In Istanbul, the police raided the houses of the Mücadele Birliği Newspaper office, Ayışığı Ekin Art Association and its employees. Songül Yücel, Editor-in-Chief of Önsöz magazine published by Ayışığı Ekin Art Association, and illustrator Sena Şat from the editorial board were detained at their homes on suspicion of “membership in a terrorist organization” (TCK 314) (6 October).

Police detained Mücadele Birliği Newspaper Editor-in-Chief Ezgi Yergin and Mücadele Birliği Platform Representative Muhammed Hizmetçi (October 6).

The detained newspaper and magazine employees were released on October 9 (October 9).