The Amnesty calls for freedom with the #Journalismisnotacrime motto for the imprisoned journalists in Turkey on May 3 Press Freedom Day.

Ayşenur Parıldak, correspondent of the closed Zaman daily, standing trial on charge of “being a member of the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization” has been arrested again in the evening hours, soon after the court released her.

We share names of the 118 journalists who are in prison according to the BİA Media Monitoring Report January-February-March 2017 report.

Police carried out a raid on the Yürüyüş Magazine in Gazi neighbourhood, İstanbul towards this morning. The office of the magazine was searched and five people were taken into custody.

sendika.org editor Ali Erdin Demirhan has been released after five days in custody.

After being arrested in Nusaybin and released in the second hearing of her trial held before Mardin 2nd High Criminal Court, journalist Meltem Oktay has been arrested again.

Police have raided journalist Gök’s home and searched the house in which Gök was absent.

sendika.org editor Ali Erdin Demirhan has been taken into custody on grounds of “attempting to make the referendum results look illegitimate”.

Redaktif.net Editor-in-Chief Gülseven, who was detained from his family’s home in Ayvalık where he went to vote in the referendum, has been released.

Left-wing, Kurdish or member of Gülen movement. Some of them are still unemployed, some work as carpenters, some opened up a shop and some are inaccessible.

Unemployment was one of the ways of oppression, and this pressure increased with the OHAL announced after the July 15 coup attempt.

16 of the 17 suspects including Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan, Ekrem Dumanlı, Emre Uslu, Tuncay Opçin arrested as a part of the FETÖ investigation face three life sentences.

bianet’s article “Acquittal for ‘Thief, Murderer Erdoğan’” has been blocked upon President Erdoğan’s complaint to the Prosecutor’s office. The reason for the block is “Expressions aiming at creating a negative and false impression with the regular reader”.

All of the 13 defendants of Oda TV case were acquitted in the trial that began six years ago at İstanbul 18th Heavy Penal Court today.

Following the court ruling that all the suspects in the Oda TV trial be acquitted for lack of evidence , Ahmet Şık has called on to all who had been following the trial: “This rulership of mafia, this organized state of evil will get what it deserves. It will experience the inevitable”.

20th Metin Göktepe Journalism Awards have been delivered to its laureates on Göktepe’s birthday.

Sûjin correspondents Zeynep Turgut and Nişmiye Güler have been detained in a café in Tatvan where they were present for news coverage.

Journalist Can Dündar, also a suspect according to indictment in Cumhuriyet case has responded to the claims of the prosecutors in the trial that “the editorial policy changed” as “None of your business”.

Indictment of Cumhuriyet investigation has been covered in Sabah newspaper before handed to defense attorneys. The offenses “Aiding an [illegal] organization though not being a member” and “being a member of an [illegal] organization” took place in the indictment.

Judges who ordered release of 21 journalists including Murat Aksoy and Atilla Taş have been suspended from duty.