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The EU Parliament will vote on support for detained Joakim Medin

by AI | 02.May 2025 | Europe in brief AI

Turkey’s legal process against the Swedish journalist Joakim Medin will be debated in the EU Parliament. This could result in an EU demand for Turkey to immediately release him from prison.

EU parliamentarian Jonas Sjöstedt (V) after the trial against journalist Joakim Medin in Turkey's capital Ankara. Photo: Jonas Ekströmer/TT

Stockholm – Turkey’s legal process against the Swedish journalist Joakim Medin will be debated in the EU Parliament.

The Swedish EU parliamentarians from the Left Party, Jonas Sjöstedt and Hanna Gedin, along with Giorgos Georgiou from Cyprus, have proposed a resolution condemning the accusations – as well as demanding that Medin and other journalists who have been imprisoned for “exercising their freedom of expression” be immediately released.

The proposal is scheduled for debate in Parliament on Wednesday and will be voted on Thursday.

Joakim Medin was sentenced after the trial in Ankara this week to a suspended sentence of just over eleven months for insulting the president. He is also charged with participating in a terrorist organization and spreading terrorist propaganda and remains imprisoned awaiting that trial. There is still no date for the next trial.

He traveled on assignment for the Swedish newspaper Dagens ETC to Istanbul in March to report on extensive protests in the country. Medin, who has visited Turkey as a journalist several times, was arrested immediately at the airport.

According to Medin’s defense attorney, he risks, in the worst case, twelve years in prison.

(May 2)