The Turkish government has handed over an Iranian opposition journalist Arash Sohashargh to Tehran regime, according to a report by online news outlet Artı Gerçek.
Columnist Yıldız Candan wrote in her column in Artı Gerçek that Sohashargh, who was accused by Tehran of opposing the regime and sought asylum in Turkey last year, is being held in a prison in Gilan province. Candan wrote that Sohashargh was being followed by Iranian intelligence by citing the jailed journalist’s family members.
According to Candan’s article, Sohashargh’s family became alarmed when he went missing in the Turkish province of Van in February 2018 despite the fact that the Iranian journalist was under the protection of the United Nations. “If these allegations are true, then there was an unlawful cooperation between Turkey and Iran with regard to the extradition of an opposition member,’’ Candan noted.
Iran is accused of arbitrary arrest and detention of journalists’ family members, the confiscation of passports and travel bans preventing people from leaving Iran as well as ongoing surveillance of journalists and their families.
Turkey is ranked 157th among 180 countries in the 2018 World Press Freedom Index released by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). If Turkey falls two more places, it will make it to the list of countries on the blacklist, which have the poorest record in press freedom.
Turkey is the biggest jailer of journalists in the world. The most recent figures documented by SCF show that 237 journalists and media workers were in jail as of September 2, 2018, most in pretrial detention. Of those in prison 169 were under arrest pending trial while only 68 journalists have been convicted and are serving their time. Detention warrants are outstanding for 145 journalists who are living in exile or remain at large in Turkey.
Detaining tens of thousands of people over alleged links to the Gülen movement, the government also closed down some 200 media outlets, including Kurdish news agencies and newspapers, after a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016.
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