Halil Güneş was in treatment for lung and bone cancer. While a public hospital issued a report noting that “he was not in a state to stay in prison”, the Forensic Medicine Institution’s report indicated that “he could stay in prison”. Güneş has died in prison.

Hrant Dink Foundation will hold an online talk on how discrimination spreads on social media through algorithms. Susan Benesch, founding director of Dangerous Speech Project, will discuss the issue; the talk will be moderated by Yasemin Giritli İnceoğlu.

According to the İHD, at least 59 ill prisoners, seven of whom shortly after the deferment of the execution of their sentences, have lost their lives in Turkey since early 2020.

14 students of Boğaziçi University have been cited as suspects in the indictment issued by the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office over their protests against Naci İnci, the appointed rector of the university.

A citizen named A.Ç. came to a sub-governor’s office in Zonguldak province and threw the photo of President and AKP Chair Erdoğan hung at the entrance of the building to the ground. Referred to the courthouse, A.Ç has been arrested.

On Human Rights Day, four labor and rights organizations filed a complaint against Health Minister Koca and Minister of Labor Bilgin over the death of more than 200 thousand people and violations of right to life and health during the pandemic.

Having announced that she was tortured and sexually assaulted in Kandıra Prison in Kocaeli, Garibe Gezer has suspiciously lost her life in the same prison. Lawyer Eren Keskin asks, “How could a person in a cell hang herself?”

The TİHV-HRFT and İHD: “Turkey is going through one of the gravest economic crises of the last 40 years. Poverty, precarity and disorganization have been aggravated by state of emergency practices. This picture has taken on a graver look with the pandemic.”

Wounded in the accident, Hakan’s mother says, “My son told me once, ‘Mom, you will find us on the mountain road one day, the minibus goes so fast.’ We found our children not on the mountain road but on a straight road.”

The suspect from Saudi Arabia, who was detained in Paris over journalist Jamal Khashoggi's killing, has been released a day later after identity verification has confirmed that he is the wrong person, a senior judicial officer has announced.

Hazar Dost, a reporter for Halk TV, was taken into custody in Turkey’s Mediterranean province of Antalya, where he went for news follow-up. He has been released after giving his statement at the courthouse.

In a recently unveiled video from the day when retired teacher Metin Lokumcu lost his life as a result of the chemical gases used by the police, a plainclothes person is seen to order the police to “aim” and to show them how to fire tear gas cartridges.