Stockholm:
Swedish journalist Joakim Medin, who was detained on his arrival in Turkey on Thursday to cowl road protests, has been jailed, his newspaper’s editor-in-chief instructed AFP on Friday.

Requested whether or not Medin had been jailed, Dagens ETC chief Andreas Gustavsson mentioned in a textual content message, “It is appropriate”, including that “we have now not been knowledgeable about precise fees but”.

Medin was held when he landed in Turkey the place he was going to cowl anti-government protests, Swedish Overseas Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard mentioned on social media, including that she and her colleagues “at all times take it significantly when journalists are detained”.

Turkish media mentioned Medin has been accused of getting “insulted the president”, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and of being a “member of an armed terrorist organisation”.

“I do know that these accusations are false, 100% false,” Gustavsson wrote on his X account.

Gustavsson mentioned earlier that Medin had despatched a textual content message saying he was being “taken in for questioning”.

“Joakim must be launched. As a result of freedom of the press is beneath assault,” Gustavsson added.

Turkey has intensified its crackdown on anti-government protests which broke out after the arrest and jailing of Istanbul’s standard opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.

Greater than 1,879 folks have been detained since March 19, Turkey’s Inside Minister Ali Yerlikaya mentioned on Thursday.

Police additionally detained two Turkish girls journalists in daybreak raids on their houses, the Turkish Journalists’ Union (TGS) mentioned Friday.

The transfer got here simply hours after the authorities launched the final of 11 journalists arrested in daybreak raids on Monday for masking the protests, amongst them AFP photographer Yasin Akgul.

Turkey deported BBC journalist Mark Lowen, who had been masking the protests, after holding him for 17 hours on Wednesday, saying he posed “a menace to public order”, the broadcaster mentioned.

In an announcement late Thursday, Turkey’s communications directorate mentioned Lowen had been deported “because of an absence of accreditation”.

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