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Regarding Turkey detaining the journalist Joakim Medin from Sweden after arriving in İstanbul to cover the anti-coup protests for @dagensetc, which was done on pretext of allegations related to a protest (see earlier in this thread for more details) held by @rojavakommitteerna_com (the Rojava Committees) in Stockholm, the Rojava Committees in a statement themselves commented that (my translation)
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We want to hereby make it clear that Joakim Medin is not, and has never been, a member of the Rojava Committees. The journalist Medin did not participate in any way in our action and Turkey's actions further strengthen the image of a deeply undemocratic regime which is extensively using the terrorism label to silence opposition, protests and journalism.
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Medin's editor in chief also commented that the "membership in a terrorist organization" accusation is "One hundred percent false. Medin is a journalist, nothing else".