K.C. was arrested in Nevşehir due to “insulting the President” on the social media. The citizen had been taken into custody after the examination started by Nevşehir Security Directorate units “following a complaint.”
The fourth hearing of the lawsuit against Labour Party (EMEP) Executive Board member and Tunceli Provincial Chairman Mustafa Taşkale filed due to ‘illegal organization propaganda’ was held at Tunceli Assize Court.
Transsexual prisoner Buse is on a hunger strike for 31 days after not being able to obtain a permission for a gender transformation surgery despite a court decree and a medical report.
The first hearing of the lawsuit filed against conscientious objector Bülent Bektaş due to ‘making illegal organization propaganda’ by reacting against the Afrin Operation and making a call for people “not to perform military service” on the social media was held at Ankara 29th Assize Court.
The Twitter account of Aydın Aydoğan, who was wounded by a tear gas shell shot by the police during the Gezi Park protests, was closed.
People’s Democratic Congress (HDK) Co-Spokesman Prof. Dr. Onur Hamzaoğlu stood trial in the second hearing of the lawsuit against him at Adana 25th Criminal Court of First Instance due to a speech he gave in Adana.
The proceeding of lawyer Veysel Ok continued at Istanbul 37th Criminal Court of First Instance with the charge of “denigrating governmental institutions” at the interview he gave on 25 December 2015 to Özgür Düşünce [Free Thought] Newspaper.
Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office started an investigation against six people, who were exposed to torture on the 500th day of the protests of those dismissed from profession with emergency decrees on Yüksel Street.
4th Criminal Chamber of Gaziantep Regional Court signed a precedent and reversed the imprisonment sentence issued against People’s Democratic Party (HDP) member Nursel Aydoğan due to going to a hospital to receive the funerals of three Kurdish women politicians who died in Silopi.