Swedish journalist Joakim Medin (40) was arrested in Turkey on March 27. The authorities have charged him for insults against the president and participation in a terrorist organization. Courts today decided him he receives judgment on terms of eleven months and 20 days to have insulted President Recep Tayyip Erdogans, reports TT. No date for the treatment of the rest of the point has been seen. The press and the audience have gathered outside the court in Ankara on Wednesday. Photo: Jonas Ekströmer / TT / TT / NTB Medin has explained in court on Wednesday, but has been interrupted by the judges several times, writes the Swedish newspaper today’s etc that Medin also works for. It also has our confusion due to oversit border. Medin has previously written a lot about PKK and Sweden’s NATO process for the newspaper. He has also reported from Syria for several years. Nectar penalties in court say Medin that it is not the first time he sits in prison. -I was also arrested in Syria by Bashar al-Assad’s forces. It was a terrible experience and I hope the Turkish legal system will give me justice, says Medin, according to Swedish TV4. Today he has been sitting for 33 days in the feared Marmara prison. On Tuesday, the editor of Dagnes etc Andreas Gustavsson was sent a picture of a handwritten paper note, signed with Medin’s name: “Not guilty”. “Not guilty. Journalism is not an insult. Journalism is not terror. Journalism is not illegal, ”says Medin’s note. news has received the picture from the editor in today’s etc. Photo: Private patch is dated April 29. But today the verdict came that Turkey’s law does not agree. He is convicted. Connected to demonstrations According to Reuters, the debts are linked to a demonstration in Stockholm in January 2023, where a dock that mimics Erdoğan was hung outside an town hall. Turkish authorities claim that the Swedish journalist is one of 15 identified persons suspected of having organized, promoted or having participated in the demonstration. The trial is currently being followed by Swedish and Nordic mediums. Turkish medium, on the other hand, has been quiet about this case, says news. Jørgen Watne Frydnes is Secretary General of the Norwegian PEN, who works for freedom of speech. – Unfortunately not unusual, Frydnes says, pointing out that the freedom of speech in Turkey is very low. Plaintiff Turkey and demanded the millionaires the editor says he himself has seen the defendants against Medin. Today’s ETC editor Andreas Gustavsson says he has seen the defendants against Medin. Photo: Zanna Nordqvist – They are terribly thin. The basis of evidence is in fact quite common journalistic activities, such as interviews and published articles, says Gustavsson to news. – Pure legally, the prosecutor has absolutely nothing to come up with. Turkey is ranked as one of the countries with the poorest press freedom in the world. Veysel OK, who is one of Medin’s lawyers, thinks the case is political: – There is no concrete, clear or excess evidence, he says to today’s etc. Medin has been a lot in Syria in his career as a journalist. Here he is depicted on a report to Qamishli in 2015. Photo: Stringer / Reuters / NTB The lawyers of Medin have sued Turkey, according to Blank Spot. They believe that Turkey is guilty of breaking human rights to Medin and demanded that he be seen free. In addition, they demanded 5 million lira in compensation, or almost 1.4 million Norwegian kroner. After the domain became known, his defense lawyer still says at once that Joakim Medin managed completely within his journalistic boundaries, and that there is no reason to keep him imprisoned. They also demanded that he be loose immediately, according to TV4. “Although Turkish authorities are provoked by work to Medin, he is protected by freedom of speech,” the lawyer emphasized before the court. The Marmara prison outside Istanbul houses a number of political prisoners. Now Medin is prison here. Photo: UMIT BYKTAS / REUTERS / NTB More Swedish politicians and embassy employees will be present during the trial on Wednesday. Representatives from Swedish press organizations are also in place. – This is not just about Joakim’s personal freedom, but somewhat bigger, says Johan Tauubert in the time publications to Aftonbladet. – We think the lawyers really explained why this indictment is completely unreasonable. They argued for press and freedom of speech, and spent a long time explaining how a wrote an article, says parliamentary representative in Sweden Ulrika Westerlund (MP) to today’s etc right after the trial. Sit in the same prison as Imamoglu Medin had just landed in Istanbul when he was arrested for a little over a month ago. He was scheduled to cover the big protests that were in Turkey in March. Then tens of thousands of the streets after the prison of the bourgeoisie in Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu took. He is considered President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s most important political opponent. The protests in March were hit hard by the police, and over a thousand protesters were arrested. This picture was taken on March 23. Photo: AP NO SITE Imamoglu and Medin in the same prison. After a week in Istanbul, Medin was scheduled to Palestine and report there, says Medin himself in court writes TV4. Interested in foreign? Right the podcast of the editorial: Published 30.04.2025, at. 16.55 Updated 30.04.2025, at. 17.03
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