MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Coronavirus watch: Detention of haberimizvar.net Coordinator Ebru Küçükaydın
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Ebru Küçükaydın
CITY
Antalya
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2020
LAST UPDATED
14/03/2020
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Social
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
Public Prosecution Offices
Taking into custody

Editor-in-Chief İdris Özyol and editorial coordinator Ebru Küçükaydın of haberimizvar.net were taken into custody on 14 March. It was stated that the reasons for journalists’ detention were to panic the public and to publish news about the coronavirus without the officials’ statement.

Journalists taken to Antalya Police Department were released after giving their depositions (www.haberimizvar.net)