Police raided the office of Mezopotamya Agency (MA) in Turkey’s eastern province of Van, taking four journalists into custody.

Eighteen lawyers from the Progressive Lawyers' Association (ÇHD) and People's Law Bureau (HHB) were sentenced to a total of 159 years in prison.

Targeted by the Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies (ASAM) amid ongoing clashes between Azerbaijan and Armenia, HDP MP Paylan has filed a criminal complaint against the ASAM executives and released a statement about the issue.

Taken into custody on October 1, HDP’s dismissed Kars Co-Mayor Şevin Alaca’s detention period has been extended by four days along with 14 other detained people. While three people have been arrested, three people have been released on probation.

Addressing two Parliamentary questions to Justice Minister Gül, main opposition CHP’s Sezgin Tanrıkulu has asked, “How many applications have been made to your Ministry regarding the failure of prisons to provide prisoners with water or hot water?”

After the new social media law entered into force yesterday, the RSF has expressed concerns about the “use of the Internet to censor outspoken journalists in Turkey, where new legislation gives the government much more control over social media platforms.”

While Altan Tan, Sırrı Süreyya Önder and Gülfer Akkaya have been released on probation, 17 people, including Kars Co-Mayor Ayhan Bilgen, have been arrested as part of the Kobani investigation launched by Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.

While 20 detained HDP politicians have been referred to court with a request for their arrest, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) co-rapporteurs for Turkey have called for the “the immediate release of arrested opposition members.”

Conducting an investigation into the allegations that two villagers were dropped from a military helicopter, the Van Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has imposed a confidentiality order on the file and banned broadcasting or publishing news about the issue.

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.