Expressing a dissenting opinion to the law draft on criminal enforcement approved by the Parliamentary Justice Commission, the HDP has raised concerns over the overcrowding in prisons and the conditions of ill prisoners.

The Ministry of National Defense has announced that the movement of military personnel and units in operation areas in Syria has been reduced to minimum unless absolutely necessary due to coronavirus pandemic.

Releasing a statement, "Have You Heard” Initiative has said, “We call on everybody, with or without authority: Take action for the release of imprisoned journalists before they are faced with the virus threat. Raise your voice with ours.”

The Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD) has announced that arrested lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal have turned their hunger strike into a death fast. While Timtik was on the 94th day of her hunger strike, Ünsal was on the 63rd day.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Europe and Central Asia Director Hugh Williamson has said, “For vulnerable prisoners, the COVID-19 pandemic risks turning a prison sentence into a death sentence.”

Wearing face masks in crowded areas has been mandated and a curfew has been imposed on people under the age of 20, President Erdoğan has announced.

Speaking to bianet about distance education, Education Union Secretary for Education Bozdoğan says, “You cannot introduce a system by considering everyone on equal terms, because the conditions of neither our children, nor our teachers are equal.”

Kılıçdaroğlu has urged the government to use the unemployment fund to help people.

The ruling coalition's draft bill to protect inmates from COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey's already overloaded prisons, faces strong reaction by the opposition parties for discriminating against poltical prisoners and "criminals of thought".

Attorneys of the former HDP co-chair have filed an application for his release from prison.

When we ask the relatives of jailed journalists about their opinions on the bill of criminal execution, they express their indignation about the exclusion of their loved ones. “They are taking responsibility for human life,” says Özge Terkoğlu.

Eight politicians and intellectuals, namely Ahmet Türk, Celal Doğan, Kezban Hatemi, Nesrin Nas, Oya Baydar, Rıza Türmen, Tarhan Erdem and Zülfü Livaneli, have called on the Parliament and political parties to take action to eliminate inequality.

The Interior Ministry had blocked donation accounts of İstanbul and Ankara municipalities

In a statement on the law draft on criminal execution, the ÜNİVDER says, “A legal arrangement that will exclude misdefined ‘terror crimes’ means a grave right violation for tens of thousands of political prisoners unjustly held behind bars.”

HDP Parliamentary Group Deputy Chair Beştaş has made remarks on the planned amendments to the law on criminal execution and the government's policies on the Covid-19 pandemic.

Making a statement about the law draft on criminal execution, CHP MP Tanrıkulu says, “Prisons are apparently the places where it is most difficult to maintain hygiene and isolation. When the outbreak spreads to prisons, mass deaths are likely to occur.”

The Metropolitan Municipality of İstanbul has filed a second lawsuit against Canal İstanbul project on the ground that it will cause irreversible damages in the event that the Change of Environmental Plan is put into effect.

Making a statement about the condition of ill prisoners in Turkey amid COVID-19 outbreak, the Human Rights Association (İHD) has called on the President to “use his authority to release without making exceptions.”

In the joint statement, it has been indicated, “We call on the Turkish authorities to immediately and unconditionally release journalists, human rights defenders and others who have been charged or convicted simply for exercising their rights.”

Addressing the public following the cabinet meeting, President Erdoğan has announced that they have launched a “National Solidarity Campaign” to support the ones in need amid COVID-19 pandemic and he has donated his seven monthly salaries.