Ministry of the Interior announced legal actions taken against 182 people between the dates November 5-12 related to their social media posts.
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PEN International launched a press statement due to November 15, Day of the Imprisoned Writer.
The notion of IMPUNITY can be defined plainly as the impossibility of investigation, prosecution and penalization of rights violations in legal, administrative and factual methods. This mechanism encompasses all stages of the judiciary and execution, starting from the action itself and the perpetrator, and is a dominant and widespread administrative and judicial practice in Turkey….
Educators Nursel Tanrıverdi and Selvi Polat were taken into custody once again after protesting at Bakırköy Square to “get back their jobs.”
People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Central Executive Council (MYK) member Gülsüm Ağaoğlu was released in the first hearing of the case filed against her.
State of Emergency Applications Monitoring Committee, decided on 30 thousand applications so far from the total 118 thousand applications.
Artvin Governorate did not allow the Cerattepe Meeting, that was planned to be organized in Kafkasör Meadow, due to the busy schedule during the religious holiday.
Istanbul 35th Assize Court issued the release of Amnesty International Turkey Executive Board Chairman and lawyer Taner Kılıç, who was the only arrested defendant in the Büyükada Case.
9 of the 11 people, who were arrested for 60 days due to insulting the President during a rally organized by Republican People’s Party (CHP)’s Presidential candidate Muharrem İnce in Izmir prior to the June 24 elections, were released.
According to the data announced by the Ministry of Justice, 456,157 people are on release with supervision by July 2018.