MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Intervention to journalist Bilal Çığrın by security forces
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Bilal Çığrın
CITY
Kocaeli
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
19/04/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Other
MEDIUM
Television
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
Interferences by the Executive Power
Executive and Administration
Interference of police forces

Journalists Oguzhan Aktas, Bahar Cesur, Arzu Yildirim, Elif Cetiner, Damla Bektas and Bilal Cigrin were attacked by the security forces on 13 February 2017 while they were reporting the press statement held in front of Kocaeli University Anitpark Campus. Aktaş and Cesur were injured in the attack.