Sweden – Sweden Herald, April 09, 2025
A court in Ankara rejected on Wednesday an appeal against the detention of Swedish journalist Joakim Medin. That’s how it works in Turkey, says Dagens ETC’s editor-in-chief Anders Gustafsson.
The court decided that Medin should be held in custody pending trial. The decision to arrest the Swedish journalist was in accordance with the law, according to the court, which emphasizes that there was strong suspicion of a crime.
Neither Joakim nor his lawyers have been given a clear indication of what he is suspected of, says Dagens ETC’s Anders Gustafsson to TT.
Veysel Ok, deputy head of the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA), which had filed an appeal, writes that the organization will now take the case further to the Constitutional Court.
