Alerts | Arrest/detention under other laws

Journalist and editor arrested in Turkey for reporting on coronavirus

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Journalists Mustafa Ahmet Oktay and Eren Sarıkaya from Bartın-based Halk Newspaper and Pusula Newspaper were taken into custody over a report published about the spread of COVID-19

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