Sweden – The Local SE, April 02, 2025
Swedish journalist Joakim Medin, who was arrested on arrival in Turkey on terrorism charges, is being kept away from other prisoners but is otherwise in ‘good spirits’, his employer said.
Medin is “well fed, he can exercise” but is being held “isolated” at Siliviri prison, according to his lawyer who met with him, the newspaper he works for, Dagens ETC, said in an article.
It published a photo taken by the lawyer of a piece of paper on which Medin had written: “Journalism is not a crime, in any country.”
Medin was arrested last Thursday when he arrived in Turkey to cover massive street protests sparked by the detention and jailing of Istanbul’s opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu – the main political rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
