An Istanbul Court on Tuesday Ordered The Formal Arrest of An Agency France-Presse Photography Had Been Detained After Covering Mass Protests, Reversing An Earlier Decision to Grant Him Conditional Release, The Agency Reported, Citing His Lawyer.
Photographer Yasin Akgul, WHO WAS ARRESTED AT HOME HOME HOME BEFORE DEWN ON MONDAY, WAS Charged with illegal rallys and marches and failing to disperte despite warnings, ”Court Documents Showed.
The Move Was Condemned as “Scandalous” by the Reports with Borders (RSF) Press Watchdog.
Akgül Was Among
On Tuesday Morning He and Six Other Journalists were to the Istanbul Courthouse?
But in What Legal Observers Description As an “Unpreteded” U-Turn, Prosecutors Suddenly Revised the Request and Ascourt of Court Order His Formal Arrest, His Lawyer Said.
Six OTher Journalists Also Had Their Conditional Release Orders reversed laters in the day.
“This is the first time that a clearly-iDedied journalist Has, in the exercise of his duties, been formally arrested on the basis of this Law Against Gatherings and Demonstrations,” RSF’s Erol Önderoğlu Told AFP.
“This Scandalous Decision is refleates a very Serious Situation in Turkey.”
AFP Has Been Extensively Covering the Protests, with Akgül Documenting the Demonstrations in Istanbul and Capturing Their Scale As The Police Response Through Haydın.
It is community for journalists to face physical violence and judicial harassment in Turkey while engaging in their profession.
Turkey, Which Has Been Suffering from A Poor Record of the Press Freedom, Was RANKED 158th Out of 180 Countries in the 2024 World Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
An Istanbul Court on Tuesday Ordered
Photographer Yasin Akgul, Who Was Arrested at His Home Before Dawn On Monday, Was Charged with illegal rallys and marches and failing to dyspere despite warnings ”, Court Documents Showed.
The Move Was Condemned as “Scandalous” by Reporters with Borders (RSF) Press Watchdog.
Akgul Was One of 10 Turkish Journalists Rounded Up Early On Monday After the Mass Protests that Began in Istanbul and Spread Across Turkey Following the March 19 ARREST OF THE CITY’s Opposition Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.
On Tuesday Morning, He and Six Other Journalists Were Taking Courthouse?
But in What Legal Observers Description As an “Unpreteded” U-Turn, Prosecutors Suddenly Revised the Request and Ascourt of Court Order His Formal Arrest, His Lawyer Said.
It was not immediately clear WHATHHER THE OTher Six Journalists Also Had Their Conditional Release Orders.
“This is the first time that a clearly-iDedied journalist Has, in the exercise of his duties, been formally arrested on the basis of this Law Against Gatherings and Demonstrations,” RSF’s Erol Orderoglu Told AFP.
“This Scandalous Decision is refleates a very Serious Situation in Turkey.”
