The court rejected the demand by Dink’s lawyers to see the report about Erhan Tuncel, who is on trial as one of the instigators of the murder. The next hearing will be on January 26, 2009.

Amnesty International demanded independent medical treatment an aid for Gün and Karakaya, who have been facing torture and bad treatment. Their friend Ceber, who was put into prison with time, died a few days ago for the bad treatment he received in prison.

Lawyer Timtik says the secrecy decision in the investigation of Engin Ceber’s torture will affect the trial of the case negatively.

The play about the life of Musa Anter, Kurdish journalist, writer and poet, who was assassinated in Diyarbakır in 1992, has been banned in Izmir, even though it was in the program. The municipality claims that the pressure from the Police Department led to the banning.

Dink’s lawyers have objected to not being able to see the report about Erhan Tuncel’s function as an intelligence staff on the grounds that it was a “State Secret”. Witness Osman Hayal did not answer the question whether or not he was in Istanbul at the time of the murder.

Istanbul’s 14th High Criminal Court will continue hearing the witnesses in Dink’s murder case. “Hrant’s Friends” will be at Beşiktaş Square in Istanbul as before, demanding justice.

Interfering in the activity of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) in Izmir, police takes into custody forty-three people and ten people were injured.

Lawyer Aslan said that one of her clients, twenty-nine year old Ceber, died because of torture and another one of his clients is in the danger of dying.

Lawyer Kemalettin Gülen faces the court for threatening Hurriyet columnist Ahmet Hakan Coşkun. According to BİA Media Monitoring Report of July 18, two journalists, one academician and one writer were threatened In April-May-June period.

Police Officer Mustafa Atasoy will face the court for shooting 22 year old Cem İnci during an argument. He will be charged with voluntary manslaughter. The Police Department has tried to diminish the seriousness of the incident.

The court for the Malatya trial is getting ready to hear Varol Bülent Aral, Ebubekr Öktem and Yıldız Özdemir as witnesses.

Opposing giving permission to the Army to conduct military operations in Northern Iraq against the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) guerillas, Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP) deputy Uras says the problem will be solved with more democracy.