Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office started an investigation against People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Pervin Buldan due to her speech, criticizing the investigations against HDP MPs.
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Ege University Rectorate charged the material damages caused during the operation against students, who were protesting the work disaster in Soma with 301 miners dead, to the students.
Hürriyet Daily’s reader representative Faruk Bildirici announced that the number of access bans brought by Criminal Judicatures of Peace against the newspaper’s content since 2014 has reached 2047.
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Censorship everywhere on 110th anniversary of its abolishment, journalists still in jail
by Dusun-ThinkFollowing the declaration of the Second Constitutional Era, July 24th was being celebrated as the “Press Holiday” to honour the removal of censorship; whereas is now celebrated as the “Day on the Fight for Press Freedom” with the return of censorship following the 1971 military coup.
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.
Constitutional Court (AYM) issued a right violation on three children who were convicted and were released with monitoring due to the press statement made by the Prime Minister upon his arrival in Adana.
Ministry of the Interior announced investigations started against 267 people due to their social media posts within the last week (July 16-23).
Leaflets were distributed in Izmir, Ankara and Osmaniye involving homophobic hate speech.