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A lawsuit was filed against People’s Democratic Party (HDP) former MP Osman Baydemir due to the speeches he gave at the group meeting in Van as well as at the “Conscience and Justice Watch.”
Mardin Governorate has announced that all protests and demonstrations to be organized within the province until the end of the year were bound to permission by the local administration with the condition to inform the administration of the event at least 48 hours before due to “providing the public order, peace and security.”
Approximately 10 thousand journalists are unemployed, 142 journalists are on prison; criminal and compensation lawsuits continue to against hundreds of journalists. Another obstacle in front of the journalists, who continue to work taking the chance of arrests and unemployment, are press cards.
Assoc. Prof. Ahmet Tuna Altınel, one of the academics on trial due to “making illegal organization propaganda” through signing the “Peace Petition” of the Academics for Peace, was arrested.
The police took Middle East Technical University (METU) campus under blockade before the 9th Pride March, that was banned by the Rectorate, and attacked students participating in the March.
Bursa Bar Association has stated that the Constitutional Court decree on the reversal of 1-year 3-month imprisonment sentence issued against Ayşe Çelik is a precedent and must be applied for those on trial with the same charges.
Today is May 3rd, World Press Freedom Day… As the world’s largest journalist prison, Turkey enters May 3rd under dark again.
The summary judgement of the lawsuit filed against Turkish Medical Association (TTB) 2016-2018 Central Council members, who stated, “War Is a Matter of Public Health” in regards to the Afrin Operation, was held at Ankara 32nd Assize Court.
The Constitutional Court (AYM) decided that the rights of arrested journalist-writer Ahmet Altan and Nazlı Ilıcak were not violated.
The Constitutional Court (AYM) evaluated the applications of former executives and writers of Cumhuriyet Daily, who were arrested in 2016, as well as the application of journalist Murat Aksoy’s arrest; all under the lawsuit known as “FETÖ Media Case”, three years after their application.