According to the official statement, a total of 39 thousand 604 people have faced administrative and/or legal action over the past week for failing to abide by the countrywide weeknight and weekend curfews introduced to curb the spread of COVID-19.

Two students have been remanded in custody over the display of an artwork depicting Kaaba during the protests.

Diyarbakır Medical Chamber has granted this year’s award to Human Rights Association (İHD) Co-Chair Keskin for her struggle against racism and discrimination.

“Being a Human in Prison” panel discussion held by the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) Human Rights Branch has emphasized that prisons are on top of the list of places where human rights violations are most frequently encountered.

Freemuse, an international organization defending artistic freedom, has released its “State of Artistic Freedom 2021” report, analyzing 978 acts of violations of artistic freedom in 89 countries and online spaces in 2020.

Over 10 Swedish journalism and literature organizations, together with the chief culture editors of some newspapers, have released a joint statement calling for the release of arrested journalist and writer Ahmet Altan.

Ağrı MP Berdan Öztürk is investigated over a speech while Van MPs Sezai Temelli, Muazzez Orhan Işık, Tayip Temel and Murat Sarısaç face an investigation over their social media messages.

A person was given a judicial fine for criticizing a politician who praised Kenan Evren.

4-year-old Zeynep Meryem Özlek, on her way to a market with her mother and two siblings, was hit by a concrete mixer driven C.Ç. while she was crossing the street.

Four employees of Özgür Gündem received prison sentences, reports about Berat Albayrak were banned, 48 journalists stood trial in two weeks.

With her literary works brought against her as criminal evidence, writer Şimşek says that she was subjected to strip search and not given water for hours while she was in detention at Malatya Security Directorate.

Meriç Eyüboğlu, the attorney of former bianet reporter Beyza Kural, has spoken to bianet about the Constitutional Court’s ruling of right violation given for the police violence that Kural was subjected to while covering a students’ protest in 2015.