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Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu was sentenced to a total of 197 thousand TL compensation after announcing unlawful money transactions by President Erdoğan and his relatives to the Isle of Man with documents of proof.

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.

Journalists Idris Yılmaz and Erhan Akbaş, who revealed incidents of sexual abuse in different schools in Erciş district of Van, were acquitted in the case they were on trial at Erciş 1st Criminal Court of First Instance with the allegation of “false news and slander.”

16 people were sentenced to imprisonment varying from 1 year to 1 year and 8 months due to ‘violating the Law on Meetings and Demonstrations No. 2911’ after protesting Social Fabric Foundation Chairman Nurettin Yıldız, who attracted reactions after his statements legitimizing abuse and pedophilia.

The fourth hearing of the case in which Dihaber reporter Selman Keleş and journalist Arif Aslan are on trial was held at Van 5th Assize Court.