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Sendika.org editor Ali Ergin Demirhan was taken into custody due to his social media posts and the news he wrote, entitled, “We can stop dictatorship,” published on January 11.

Van Governorate once again extended the protest and demonstration ban announced every month for the past two years.

The protest started by the ‘Saturday Mothers’ on 27 May 1995 to say, “We want our losses!” has left 23 years behind.

Istanbul 32nd Assize Court accepted the indictment prepared against 21 students, 13 of them on pre-trial detention, who were targeted by President Erdoğan after saying, “There is no delight in massacre” as a reply to those distributing “Afrin delights” at Boğaziçi University.

The proceeding of journalist Oktay Candemir continued at Van 5th Assize Court. Candemir faces the charge of ‘making illegal organization propaganda’ through the news he covered and his social media posts.

State of Emergency Applications Monitoring Commission issued the first decrees on the institutions and organizations, which were shut down with emergency decrees.

Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Co-Chair Sebahat Tuncel was sentenced to five months of imprisonment due to a demonstration march she participated in 2012.

The Constitutional Court decided that the administrative fine sentenced against five people due to stopping the traffic by participating in the protest demonstration organized in May 2014 in Eskişehir for the anniversary of the execution of Deniz Gezmiş and his friends was a violation and that such actions must not be penalized since they are “peaceful, within the tolerable limit.”

A second lawsuit of compensation was filed against journalist Çiğdem Toker for 1.5 million TLs.

After the arrest of rapper Ezhel due to ‘encouraging drug use,’ the hashtag #FreeEzhel became the top trend in Turkey on Twitter.