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Coronavirus watch: Detention of editor-in-chief of Ses Kocaeli Güngör Aslan
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Güngör Aslan
CITY
Kocaeli
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2020
LAST UPDATED
21/03/2020
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Social
MEDIUM
Internet
Internet News Portal
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

Ses Kocaeli Newspaper editor-in-chief İsmail Çiğit was taken into custody through a police raid to his house, due to a news article regarding two coronavirus related deaths at a local hospital. After Güngör Aslan, who is a journalist at the same online local newspaper, informed police that the article was penned by him, Çiğil was released and Aslan was taken into custody. Aslan and managing editor Ahmet Seminer were relased after giving their statements.