Mezopotamya Agency (MA) and JinNews reporters who were covering the protests in Batman (Êlih) and Yeni Yaşam newspaper employees were threatened by people who introduced themselves as police.

The alleged police officers who blocked the journalists' way when they returned from covering the news wanted to detain Yeni Yaşam employee Veysi Akören. The journalists asked the alleged police to identify themselves, but they refused to show their IDs. Instead, they tried to detain Akören.

The people and journalists around the alleged security forces protested and defended the journalists. The alleged police started to threaten the journalists, saying "We will get you too". Faced by the resistance of the people and the journalists, eventually they got in their cars and fled.

The people and journalists chanted the slogans "Free press cannot be silenced, "We will win by resisting".