According to the Child Prisoners Report by CİSST/TCPS, there were 92 complaints launched in the last 10 years against torture and maltreatment in juvenile prisons, but in only one case, the suspect was found guilty and sentenced to prison.

Court of Appeals has approved the prison sentence for the police officer Y.M. who shot Doğan to death in a house raid in Sarıyer, İstanbul.

Legist Kerem Altıparmak has declared that Human Rights Center at Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University has been closed.

Academics from France have made a statement of solidarity with the arrested rights advocate, businessperson Osman Kavala: “Like other intellectuals from Turkey, Osman Kavala has been left alone in a country which continues to oppress oppositional academics, imprison journalists”.

Union of Turkish Bar Associations Chair Feyzioğlu has said, “Nobody should expect me to be sympathetic to Nuriye and Semih”.

The third hearing in the case of Berkin Elvan, who lost his life after being shot on the head with a gas cartridge during the Gezi protests in 2013, was held today. The police officer who is the suspect of the trial was not brought to court, and his testimony could not be taken due to a failure of the Audio and Visual Information System.

Concerning his statement that “No academic, politician or journalists who signed this petition would be granted right to live by any country, leave alone sending them to prison” addressing the Peace Declaration signatory academics, AKP’s Kavcıoğlu has said his words were twisted.

Demanding an official apology concerning the Dersim massacre, Tunceli Bar Association has requested the truth be shared with the public, whereabouts of the disappeared be searched and commemorations be held for those who lost their lives.

Referring the academics who signed the peace declaration, AKP’s Kavcıoğlu has said, “No academic, politician or journalists who signed this petition would be granted right to live by any country, leave alone sending them to prison”.

A legal suit brought against the İstanbul Chamber of Medicine by the Ministry concerning the medical intervention during Gezi resistance has been dismissed.

Turkey has been listed among the countries in which Internet freedoms are restricted most in US-based think tank Freedom House’s report.

Five independent experts from the Special Procedures of United Nations Human Rights Council have denounced the “terror” charges pressed against rights defenders and lawyers, and arrests of them.