The Information and Communication Technologies Authority has blocked access to direnisteyiz.org, Mezopotamya Agency and Kizilbayrak.net.

ETHA reporter Kayar, Ali Deniz Esen from the ESP, Sıtkı Güngör, Narin Duru, Boran Atıcı, Eren Bulut from the SGDF have been sent to prison.

Demokratik Modernite editor Haydar Ergün and Mezopotamya Agency reporter Seda Taşkın have been arrested.

The Information and Communication Technologies Authority has blocked access to JinNews news site. The news site continues on www.jinnews1.com.

122 journalists are in prison. 36 news sites and articles, eight caricatures, six books and three newspapers have been censored. 39 journalists are defendant over “insult”. Attacks increase and threats become more widespread. 46 journalists were left unemployed.

122 journalists and media staff entered January 1, 2018 in prison; 122 prisoners: 66 of them are defendant, 21 of them are convicts, 4 of them are condemned, 31 of them are suspected. 79 journalists are in prison due to the FETÖ cases, and 28 journalists are in prison due to the PKK cases.

Courts have ruled continuation of arrest of Şahin Alpay and Mehmet Altan despite Constitutional Court ruling that their “right to personal freedom and security” and “freedom of expression and press” have been violated.

Lawyer Veysel Ok has said the Constitutional Court registered that 1-year detention was unjust. He stated that they hope this decision is such as to be rendered for all journalists.

Artı Gerçek news site writer Fadıl Öztürk has been detained due to his articles.

Ankara 6th Criminal Judgeship of Peace has blocked access to Mezopotamya Ajans, Demokrat Haber, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi and 1HaberVar news sites.

The journalists have sent their regards to their colleagues in prison. Ahmet Şık, who took place in the group photo taken last year for the same purpose and was detained in the next morning, was represented with his carton image.

Arrested Cumhuriyet daily accountant Emre İper who was among the holders of 11,480 GSM numbers that Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office reported to have installed ByLock, unknowingly on their cell phones, has been released after 267 days behind bars.

The latest hearing of Erol Önderoğlu, Ahmet Nesin and Prof. Dr. Şebnem Korur-Fincancı standing trial over attending the Editorship in Chief on Watch Campaign for the now-closed Özgür Gündem daily, was held yesterday.

Here we publish defendant Ahmet Şık's full statement of defence that the court refused to hear in yesterday's hearing of Cumhuriyet daily trial.

Three academics from İstanbul University charged for having signed the peace declaration, had the first hearing of their trials today. Their next hearing will be on May 8, 2018.

The fifth hearing in Cumhuriyet Trial in which 20 defendants five of whom are in detention pending trial, was held today before İstanbul 27th Assize Court in Çağlayan, İstanbul. The court has decided that the defendants remain in pre-trial detention. Next hearing will be held on March 9, 2018.

According to the annual report by the Reporters Without Borders, 65 journalists were killed; 326 were arrested; 54 were taken hostage and two journalists went missing in 2017. Turkey is one of the countries with the highest number of jailed journalists.

Six people including journalist translator Meşale Tolu have been released in the hearing in which 18 people have been tried. The next hearing is on April 26.

Minister Arslan has first claimed that sendika.org was closed due to “sexual harassment against children, prostitution and gambling”, and then apologized.

Journalist Adam Klasfeld, who has made a large audience in Turkey with his instant tweets in Zarrab trial, shared his observations about the trial with bianet.