MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Threat against journalist Hale Gönültaş
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Hale Gönültaş
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
20/05/2022
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Social Media Account
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
Threat or Harassment

Hale Gönültaş, a reporter for kısadalga.net news website, reported on a video where a woman from ISIS who had been detained in a raid in İstanbul last year threatened people opposing sharia with a knife in her hand in the İstanbul Başakşehir Nation’s Garden. Making a statement on social media, Gönültaş said that she was threatened and harassed (May 20).