Çağdaş Ses news website editor journalist Ece Sevim Öztürk was taken into custody at 02:30 in the night.
Human Rights Association (IHD) and Independent Election Monitoring Platform launched their report compiling violations before the elections.
The European Union (EU) Turkey Delegation made a written statement and indicated that arrested human rights advocates in Turkey must be provided with the right to fair trial in accordance with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the precedents of European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the basis of the principle of presumption of innocence.
A lawsuit was filed against Cumhuriyet Newspaper reporter Canan Coşkun following her coverage of lawyers testifying at the Prosecutor’s Office on 20 September 2017 after being taken into custody within an investigation against DHKP-C, with the title, “14 lawyers of Nuriye and Semih arrested.”
The lawsuit filed against members of DISK, KESK, TMMOB and TTB due to the press statement organized in Istanbul on 13 October 2015 to protest the bomb attack of ISIS against the Peace Rally in 2015 continued at Istanbul 15th Criminal Court of First Instance.
Erzincan 2nd Assize Court sentenced Erzincan University student S. B. to 1 year and 3 months of imprisonment due to ‘making illegal organization propaganda’ by sharing a photo of a heart with the word, “Kurdistan,” on the social media.
An investigation was started against People’s Liberation Party (HKP) Chairman Nurullah Ankut, who is already on trial at Istanbul 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance due to insulting Erdoğan, due to the statement he made at the courthouse following the hearing of the case on 20 March 2018.
According to the data announced by the Ministry of Justice, there are 442,506 people in Turkey subject to “release on probation” by May 2018.
The Constitutional Court criticized the judiciary in the abatement of a file due to time limitation.