"Journalists, students and politicians who are treated as 'terrorists' because of their news, statements and views should be included in the new regulation on criminal execution," the initiative has said.

Başak Demirtaş has said that the Presidency has sent its “don’t leave home” message to his imprisoned husband Selahattin Demirtaş as well: “You say 'don’t leave home if you are chronically ill.' It is exactly what we are talking about.”

Replaced with a state-appointed trustee and arrested shortly afterwards, Mardin Mazıdağı District Co-Mayor Nazal Özaydın has been released on probation and on the condition that she does not leave home.

281 writers, academics, journalists and rights defenders have denounced the draft law on criminal execution for excluding jailed politicians, journalists and rights defenders from reduced prison sentences and early release from prison.

In the aftermath of September 12 military coup, my mother was in Diyarbakır No. 5 Military Prison, where the most inhuman tortures were inflicted. Crimes against humanity were committed there. But, she has never stopped saying peace and equality.

Summoned to depose due to her social media posts and articles about coronavirus pandemic, writer and columnist Nurcan Baysal has been released following the formalities at police department and court proceedings.

Sending a letter to bianet, a prisoner from Bolu Type T Prison says that they cannot keep their “social distance” due to overcrowding: “How can our immune systems be strong in an environment where we are constantly under stress?”

Demanding the release of all jailed journalists due to coronavirus pandemic, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has launched a campaign and called on the authorities to ensure the safety of over 250 imprisoned journalists around the world.

Meeting with the Interior Ministry officials regarding the condition of hunger striking Grup Yorum members, Mustafa Koçak and lawyers, rights defenders have stated, “We are told that if they abandon their hunger strikes, their demands will be evaluated.”

Six civil society and professional organizations have requested that necessary measures be taken against coronavirus pandemic in prisons and child prisoners as well as the ones who are seriously ill and older than 60 be released.

Prisoners complain that they sleep close, everything is commonly used in closed spaces, no cleaning is done, there is not even a soap and not enough sinks, bathrooms are locked, food is unhealthy and dirty, the quarantined share the same space with others…

Members of the ÖDP were beaten by the police for showing a banner that read, “Thief, Murderer AKP” ahead of the 2014 local elections.

As coronavirus outbreak is a matter of human rights, it can only be solved based on the principles of human rights. We can find a way out of these dark days only by developing policies and practices based on human rights principles.

Two soldiers have lost their lives in the “Operation Claw-3” launched by the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) along the Haftanin-Sinat line on the border with the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).

10 Members of the European Parliament have addressed a letter to Press Advertisement Institution (BİK) Director General Rıdvan Duran and called on the institution to lift the public advertising ban on daily Evrensel.

“Haberin Var Mı” (Have You Heard) Initiative criticizes the regulation on criminal execution. Requesting the release of arrested journalists, the Initiative says, “Journalists, whose only crime was to practice their profession, will remain behind bars.”

14 bar associations have criticized the 3rd Judicial Reform Package which will pave the way for the release of 100 thousand inmates while allegedly excluding political prisoners: “What makes a state powerful is its justice.”

Evin Jiyan Kışanak, Hülya Oruç, Zeynep Mızraklı, Mehmet Altan and Özge Terkoğlu slam the 3rd Judicial Reform Package for excluding political prisoners from reduced prison sentences to be introduced by the amended legal regulation on execution.

As Turkey is preparing to release as many as 100 thousand prisoners amid Covid-19 outbreak, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has welcomed the plan, but warned that “such measures cannot become a tool for targeting political prisoners.”

Shortly after HDP’s Batman, Silvan, Ergani, Eğil and Yenişehir Co-Mayors were detained, the Ministry of Interior has appointed trustees to the party’s Batman, Ergani, Eğil, Lice, Silvan, Güroymak, Halfeli and Gökçebağ Municipalities.