The Civil Society in the Penal System (CİSST) Association has documented the complaints of prisoners in a recent report: Bathrooms are dirty, washbasins are few, tap water is dirty in some prisons while it is frequently cut in some others...

Sentenced to 6 years, 3 months in prison on “terror” charges and behind bars for two years, Kurdish musician Hozan Canê, also a citizen of Germany, has been released as the court found her prison sentence disproportionate.

A prisoner in Şakran Prison wanted to send his drawing to bianet. “We want a fair trial” was written on the drawing. But the prison administration censored it. When the prisoner wanted to write to bianet about this censorship, it was censored as well.

The Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) has blocked access to sendika.org, Mezopotamya Agency and Yeni Demokrasi news websites upon the decision of the penal judgeship of peace.

Releasing a written statement, the Academics for Peace have demanded the immediate release of the people who have been taken into custody in operations against the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).

As part of an operation against the HDP in Turkey’s Kurdish majority eastern province of Kars, several people, including Kars Co-Mayor Şevin Alaca, have been detained.

Turgut was one of the two people who were revealed to be in intensive care treatment two days after they were detained in the Kurdish-majority Van province.

“Hate and Propaganda Media in Turkey: Affiliations, Models and Patterns” report has been released as part of the international Resilience Project, which is implemented in partnership with a series of media organizations, including bianet from Turkey.

Though it has long been confirmed by a medical report that documentarian Demirel is 99 percent disabled, he was struggling for his right of disability retirement for 4.5 years. The state will now automatically raise an objection as it has lost the lawsuit.

Sentenced to 9 years in prison in the Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD) case and currently held in Düzce Prison, lawyer Aycan Çiçek’s finger was broken by wardens. She treated her broken finger herself with the help of another warden.

The Governor’s Office of Tunceli has banned demonstrations and events in Dersim province for 15 days. While the coronavirus outbreak has been indicated as the reason for the ban, official events will not be within its scope.

Politicians have denounced the "provocative" demonstration and warned against hate speech.

Ceylan was killed by a mortar shell explosion in the Kurdish-majority Diyarbakır province in 2009.

Taken into custody as part of an investigation against the “Movement of the Nameless”, Şehmus Kavak, Misli Cihan Şenleten and Özgür Doğuş Erhan have been arrested on charge of “insulting the President.”

Summoned to depose for allegedly “targeting Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor Yüksel Kocaman” in a news report, TELE1 Editor-in-Chief Merdan Yanardağ has been released on probation by the court.

On September 28 Individual Disarmament Day, Umut (Hope) Foundation released a statement and announced that 2,455 incidents of violence took place in Turkey in the first nine months of 2020. 2,061 of them were committed with firearms.

Attorney Çiğdem Akbulut has spoken about the attempts to spoil evidence in the investigation launched into the killing of 15-year-old Berkin Elvan, who was shot by a police officer with a tear gas canister during Gezi protests in 2013.

Forensic Medicine Expert Prof. Dr. Şebnem Korur Fincancı, who is expected to be elected the Chair of Turkish Medical Association (TTB) Central Council in the first ordinary session, has spoken to bianet.

Freemuse has launched a campaign for musician Ferhat Tunç, who has been given prison sentences in several lawsuits in Turkey. The five-language campaign demands that the charges brought against him be dropped.

Detained as part of the “Kobani investigation”, HDP politicians had food poisoning. Attorney Dede has said that Kars Co-Mayor Ayhan Bilgen has been brought back to the security directorate after being put on a drip. Two politicians are still in hospital.