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A petition campaign was started to support People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Hakkari MP and Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Co-Chair Leyla Güven, who is on a hunger strike for 75 days with the demand to revoke the isolation against PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan.

According to the information published on the 2018 Rights Violations Report launched by Republican People’s Party (CHP) Istanbul MP Sezgin Tanrıkulu, 3.110 violations of the right to life was experienced in 2018.

Another investigation was opened against Asst. Prof. Dr. Bülent Şık after the 12-year imprisonment claim against him due to announcing the cancer research hidden by the Ministry of Health to the public.

European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided that the “right to freedom of expression and thought” of former Diyarbakır Metropolitan Mayor Osman Baydemir was violated.

The bill on ‘censorship regulation’ as described by the opposition and actors passed the Parliament.

The investigation on the death of Ömer Koç, who was killed with a hunting rifle on October 4, 2015 at 5 Nisan Neighborhood near a “Ranger”-type police vehicle that was patrolling around two streets away from his home in Bağlar district of Diyarbakır, was concluded with non-prosecution.

European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided that the speech made by Osman Baydemir in 2006, that faced lawsuits, was within his right to “freedom of expression and thought.”

Van Closed Prison decided for the magazine, “Sesimiz [Our Voice]” to be “banned permanently.” The magazine was being published by the prisoners and included articles written and comics drawn by prisoners themselves.

Independent Communication Network (BIA) launched the 2018 October-November-December Media Monitoring Report.

Amnesty International invited Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül to “use his authority for the protection of freedom of expression, press freedom and the right to fair trial” within the “Freedom for Journalists” campaign.