Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced that the amendment predicting the continuity of State of Emergency applications for at least three more years after the revocation of the State of Emergency is “ending the supremacy of law.”
23-year-old Safiye İnci, who was taken into custody due to insulting Atatürk in the video she recorded to send to a friend, was arrested due to ‘violating the Law Concerning Crimes Committed Against Atatürk No. 5816.’
Seven of the participants in the protest organized in 2015 in Izmir against the murder of Diyarbakır Bar Association Chairman Tahir Elçi were convicted of ‘insulting the President’ due to the slogans they chanted.
GNAT Human Rights Monitoring Committee Deputy Chairman Sezgin Tanrıkulu prepared a report on the right violations in June.
The first hearing of the case filed against 11 politicians was held.
Constitutional Court (AYM) issued that it is a violation of union rights and freedoms protected by the Constitution for the Council of Ministers to postpone strikes.
Batman 1st Criminal Judicature of Peace banned the book written by Cumhuriyet reporter Akın Bodur, entitled, “Four Executions, One Witness in the Darkness of September 12” due to ‘illegal organization propaganda.’
The State of Emergency, which was declared on 21 July 2016, has ended.
Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu shared the cartoon, “Tayyips World,” which lead to the arrests of four Middle East Technical University (METU) students, from his Twitter account.