Raymond Depardon

French photojournalist Mathias Depardon was freed and deported on June 9, after a month of captivity without any official charges. When he was stopped by the police on May 8, Depardon was taking pictures in the Hasankeyf district of the southeastern Anatolian province of Batman on an assignment for National Geographic. 

A French photojournalist detained in May by Turkish police while on assignment in the southeast has been deported, the French President's Office and activist group Reporters sans Frontieres said on June 9.

A French photojournalist who has been held in Turkey for a month saw his mother on June 8 for the first time since being detained in an "emotional" meeting near the Syrian border.

A French photojournalist detained by police in Turkey for nearly three weeks has ended a week-long hunger strike, press freedom body Reporters Without Borders (RSF) stated on May 27.
  
Photographer Mathias Depardon was detained on May 8 while working on a report in Hasankeyf in the southeastern Batman province for National Geographic magazine.