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Ankara West Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office prepared an indictment against retired teacher Ü.N. with the charge of insulting the President through his Facebook posts.
Diyarbakır 13th Criminal Court of First Instance sentenced former People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Figen Yüksekdağ to 1 year and six months of imprisonment due to “insulting the President.”
Journalist Rojhat Doğru was released in the second hearing of the case he was on trial due to “disrupting the unity and the territorial integrity of state” and “willful injury.”
A lawsuit was filed against six people, who were detained during the 2018 Istanbul LGBTI+ Pride March due to “violating the Law on Meetings and Demonstrations No. 2911,” “resisting to prevent duty” and “endangering traffic safety.”
Labour Party (EMEP) member Adnan Karataş, who was on trial due to his social media posts during the Gezi Park protests, was convicted due to “insulting Erdoğan.”
Educators Nursel Tanrıverdi and Selvi Polat, who protested at Bakırköy Square for their re-employment since February 20, 2017 after their dismissal from public service with emergency decrees, were arrested by Bakırköy 1st Criminal Judicature of Peace due to “organizing illegal meetings and demonstrations.”
The Constitutional Court (AYM) decided that the rights of freedom and security of the citizen, who acquitted in the first hearing of the lawsuit filed against him after staying under arrest for 13 months, were violated due to the citizen not being prosecuted “within a reasonable time.”
Criminal Judicatures of Peace brought media blackouts against the news on the murder of nine-year-old Sedanur Güzel, whose corpse was found 7 days after she was lost in Kars, as well as on four different cases of sexual abuse in Bingöl, Antalya, İzmir and Kırşehir.
A lawsuit was filed against Turkish and Middle Eastern Forum Foundation Founder and Chairman, author Fikret Başkaya related to his article, entitled, “The Real Terrorism is Government Terrorism.”
Istanbul 27th Assize Court sentenced citizen Sedat K. to imprisonment due to his social media posts.