MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Özge Uyanık’s prevention from working by police
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Özge Uyanık
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
01/05/2021
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
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
Third-Party Interference
Physical Interference

While Yol TV reporter Özge Uyanık was following the May Day demonstrations in the capital city of Ankara, police officers threw her phone on the ground and stepped on it, referring to the circular of the General Directorate of Security foreseeing the “prevention of those recording voices and images” (May 1).