Cansu Şekerci from the CİSST has spoken about children staying in prison with their mothers: “It is forbidden to have toys in wards. Children are away from not only nature and social life but games as well.” Child inmates can also be held together with adults.

In the 29th year of the adoption of Convention on the Rights of the Child, 15 thousand children die of preventable diseases a day, 155 million children are malnourished and one out of every five children cannot go to school across the world.

CHP İstanbul MP Ali Şeker has announced the answers given by the Ministry of Health to his questions regarding child motherhood. Şeker has stated, “More than 40 children have been forced to become mothers a day across Turkey.”

38 of the 74 people, who were taken into custody as part of an operation conducted in the provinces of Diyarbakır, Hakkari and Elazığ, have been arrested.

Academics Turgut Tarhanlı and Betül Tanbay and Çiğdem Mater, Meltem Aslan, Ali Hakan Altınay, Yiğit Ekmekçi, Bora Sarı, Ayşegül Güzel, Filiz Telek and Yiğit Aksakoğlu have been taken into custody as part of the operation.

Two physicians, who were taken into custody for staging a protest in front of the parliament in Ankara against the motion which foresees restrictions on employment of discharged medical doctors in private health institutions, have been released.

Germany-based International League for Human Rights has awarded this year’s Carl von Ossietzky Medal to the discharged Co-Mayor of Cizre Leyla İmret and human rights defender Ottmar Miles Paul for their contributions to human rights and peace.

85-year-old ill prisoner Sise Bingöl, who has been held in the Tarsus Type T Women’s Closed Prison in Adana, has been taken to hospital. Her attorney Gülşen Özbek has stated, "Sise Bingöl should be released immediately".

In the statement for the press made in front of the Silivri Prison, where rights advocate and businessperson Osman Kavala has been behind bars for more than a year, it has been indicated, “Depriving him of his freedom in this way is no different than torture!”

According to a joint research led by CAN Europe, coal based power plants causing excess air pollution lead to tens of thousands of premature deaths of respiratory and vascular diseases, mercury contamination in plants and animals, destruction of huge forest areas in the Muğla Province.

The detailed ruling of US Pastor Brunson, who has been sentenced to 3 years, 1 month and 15 days in prison, has been announced. In the ruling, it has been stated, “Adequate evidence as to the charges of political and military espionage has not been found.”

Journalist Adil Yiğit, who has been required to leave Germany until January 20, 2019, has spoken to bianet: “I will not come to Turkey, I will not stay in Germany. I will go to another country so that the shame of Germany will remain in Germany."