Arrested on October 29, 2022 as part of an Ankara-based investigation and sent to the Sincan Women’s Closed Prison, five women journalists filed a criminal complaint after they had been subjected to strip search in entering the prison; however, their criminal complaint ended in a decision of non-prosecution.
Concerning the criminal complaint of the five women journalists submitted to the Ankara Western Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, the prison administration argued that “the women were searched without their skins being touched barehanded, but through a gown that they were made to wear and in such a way that their sense of shame was not violated.”
Based on the prison’s statement, the prosecutor’s office gave a decision of non-prosecution by arguing that “no crime/ element of crime was detected.” The journalists appealed against the decision of non-prosecution by applying to the Ankara Western Criminal Judgeship of Peace (January 9).