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The first hearing of the lawsuit filed against arrested peace activist and conscientious objector Yannis Vasylis Yaylalı, rights advocate Meral Geylani and Veli Encu, who lost his relatives in the Roboski massacre, was held at Şırnak 2nd Assize Court.

Munzur Culture and Nature Festival, planned to be organized for the 18th time this year, was banned by Tunceli Governorate.

Diyarbakır Governorate did not permit investigations to be opened against 72 police officers on duty at the crime scene during the murder of Kemal Kurkut, who was shot dead by the police during the Newroz celebration in 2017.

Taking the floor on behalf of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) during the debates on the law draft involving new regulations on the fight against terrorism at GNAT General Assembly, Ahmet Şık could not complete his speech due to the attack of Justice and Development Party (AKP) Izmir MP Alpay Özalan.

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.

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.

Following 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.