DTP MP Aysel Tuğluk is facing a prison sentence for saying that denouncing the PKK as terrorists would not solve the Kurdish question. The court has sent her file to parliament in order to lift her immunity.

Tried with imprisonment on allegations related to news articles revealing an unlawful general authorization of electronic surveillance to security forces, Tahincioglu and Goktas's case continued today.

Three Ozgur Radio workers in Istanbul and one Demokrasi Radio worker in Izmir have been taken into custody in relation to a classified investigation against the illegal Marxist Leninist Communist Party.

One may disagree with Hrant Dink's writings and sayings but he could have defended himself if he were alive. Now he's left dead, I had to act against those violating his rights. Journalist Sener talks to bianet about his latest book.

40 journalists from 18 countries met at the Menton Journalists’ Conference in France. Bianet also attended the event.

Caucasian Associations Federation officials appeal for TV broadcast in “Adygey and Abkhaz" languages. “Our demands are neither new nor retaliatory to the recently launched Kurdish TV broadcast", says Cumhur Bal, the spokesperson.

Although the court dismissed the case against the Tursun Family, whose son was killed by a police bullet, for violating article 301, they are still on trial for influencing the trial process by “affecting those who do the trial”. The family asks for a similar reaction that occurred in Greece.

Journalist Özer is sentenced under article 301, which restricts the freedom of expression, without the benefit of the examination of the case by the Ministry of Justice, as directed in the latest revision of the article.

Since the Supreme Court of Appeals did not give permission to prosecute under article 301 the case in which academicians Kaboğlu and Oran are accused of "inciting hatred and hostility" by writing a report about minority rights, the 28th Criminal Court of First Instance sent the file to the Justice Ministry for permission to try it under article 301.

Prosecutor Şahin demands prison sentences for the Diyarbakır mayor and the Democratic Society Party representative for describing the Kurdistan Workers Party militants as guerillas. The suspects say they were simply expressing the pain they felt over watching people from both sides get killed in this conflict.

The Supreme Council of Radio and Television (RTÜK) gives permission to the FM 49 radio to do non-musical broadcasting by allowing a health program aired in Kurdish. However, the radio is waiting for a politically more suitable period to do the broadcasting.

Former Kurdish parliamentarian for the Democracy Party (DEP) is sent to prison again for making a call for civil disobedience. He refuses the chance of getting out of the prison sentence by paying fine.