Reporter and cameraman of Turkey’s TRT briefly detained in Saudi Arabia

Pakistani journalist working for Turkey’s state-run TRT’s English TV channel stated that Saudi authorities detained him and the Turkish cameraman in his team on Friday (June 16) for around 10 hours.

Reporter Hasan Abdullah and cameraman Nihat Yaman were held in custody during the recent visit of Turkey’s minister of foreign affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu.

According to reports of Al Jazeera, the two TRT workers were detained at the hotel in Mecca following their live broadcast and questioned by Saudi security officials about the Qatar crisis.

As Turkey’s FM Çavuşoğlu personally intervened and talked to the Saudi king, the TRT workers were released.

Source: https://www.birgun.net/haber-detay/trt-muhabirleri-suudi-arabistan-da-gozaltina-alindi-165255.html