Human Rights Association (IHD) reported the pressure on rights advocates and lawyers.
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Journalist İbrahim Coşkun, who was on trial due to ‘illegal organization membership’ and ‘making illegal organization propaganda’ by possessing an issue of Özgürlükçü Demokrasi Newspaper in his car, was acquitted.
People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Diyarbakır MP Idris Baluken was acquitted in the lawsuit filed against him due to the speech he gave during the 2nd Ordinary Congress of Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Elazığ Provincial Organization, organized in 2012.
Yolcu Theater actor Cenk Dost Verdi was sentenced to 2 years and six months of imprisonment due to his social media posts.
Yeni Yaşam Newspaper’s Editor-In-Chief Çağdaş Kaplan was sentenced to 6 years and three months of imprisonment in the case filed against him with the allegation of ‘illegal organization membership’ following an investigation started in Sakarya in 2010.
A lawsuit was filed against journalists who covered the news on the press statement of Labour Party (EMEP) organized in Didim, Aydın, on the Afrin Operation.
Taking Taksim under blockade, police units did not allow hundreds of people to march towards the Gezi Park this year as well.
University student Özdem K, who was on trial due to ‘making illegal organization propaganda’ on the social media, was sentenced to 1 year, 10 months and 15 days of imprisonment in Kastamonu.
Turkish folk music artist and researcher Erdal Güney was sentenced to 11 months and 20 days of imprisonment due to insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with his song, which involves the words, “my dear father.”
10th Penal Chamber of the Council of State issued that there is an administrative neglect in the case regarding the assassination of the DISK Founder-Chairman Kemal Türkler, who was killed 38 years ago.