The curfew, which was declared in five villages and neighborhoods in the district of Eruh in Turkey’s southeastern province of Siirt on the ground of an operation to be conducted in the region, has been lifted.

Hanifi Barış, an attorney and academic from the Academics for Peace, who was arrested due to his social media posts on July 4, has been released on probation.

Academics from the universities of Harvard, Yale, Oxford, MIT and Columbia have expressed their support for Osman Kavala by stating, “10 months in detention with no trial or even an indictment. Is this justice? We stand with Osman Kavala.”

Imprisoned journalist Metin Duran has been released from prison after the Forensic Medicine Institution has issued a report stating that “he cannot stay in prison.”

In the İstanbul 28th Heavy Penal Court, Dr. Lecturer Bülent Küçük, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu, Prof. Dr. N.N. and Dr. Gaye Yılmaz from Boğaziçi University have had their third hearings.

Curfew has been declared in five villages and neighborhoods in the district of Eruh in Turkey’s southeastern province of Siirt on the ground of an operation to be conducted in the region.

I want to wake up from my sleep. I want to wake up to a Turkey where justice is in place, where no murders, abuses or sexual assaults take place. I want to wake up to a Turkey that cries out out, ‘‘Never again!’’

It is the struggle for human rights that will light the torch of hope against hopelessness, not only in Turkey but in the entire world. “There is a crack in everything; that’s how the light gets in." In the name of hope, I accept this award.

We at Mwatana are working very hard to push for releasing those who are detained and disappeared all over Yemen. In spite of all the darkness, there are some successful stories that encourage us to go forward.

2018 International Hrant Dink Award has been granted to rights advocate and Truth Justice Memory Center director Murat Çelikkan and Mwatana for Human Rights Organization in Yemen.

Artists and culture and art workers have met in front of Silivri Prison for rights advocate and businessperson Osman Kavala, who has been behind bars for 320 days.

HDP’s imprisoned former co-chair Demirtaş has been nominated to France’s one of the most prestigious literary awards with his book titled “Seher”.

Shot with a gun during a police raid launched in Sarıyer this morning, İbrahim Devrim Top has lost his life.

Şahinkaya from Van Prison in her letter has written that the management doesn’t deliver the books that are not banned, court accepting their objection regarding this matter isn’t taken into consideration.

Inmates in Sivas Type E Closed Prison have written a letter to HDP Kocaeli MP Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu about the rights violations that they have experienced in prison. Gergerlioğlu has brought the issue to parliamentary agenda.

Jews celebrated the 5779th new year on September 9. We wish a happy “Rosh Hashanah” to all Jewish communities.

The court has ruled that the last two arrested defendants in the Aladağ dorm fire case shall be released on the ground that the expert report has found them guilty of “collateral negligence.”

Subjected to MDP Chair Büsküvütçü’s verbal harassment, insult and threats in Northern Cyprus in the previous days, fashion designer Şansal has cancelled his performance in İzmir on the ground that he has no life safety and freedom of expression.

Amnesty International’s Middle East Director of Campaigns Samah Hadid has released a statement before the Syria summit to be held in Tehran on September 7. She has said, “The lives of millions of people in Idlib are now in the hands of Russia, Turkey and Iran.”

HDP Diyarbakır MP Garo Paylan has submitted a motion, requesting that a parliamentary investigation be opened into the pogrom of September 6/7 in its 63rd year.