Releasing a message shortly after the ECtHR verdict of right violation and immediate release for arrested businessperson and rights defender Osman Kavala became final, “Free Osman Kavala” coordination has made a call for his immediate release.

Addressing a Parliamentary question to Minister of Justice Abdulhamit Gül, HDP MP Gülüm has noted that the public needs to be informed about the number of prison personnel who have tested positive for COVID-19 and the prisons where they work.

Reports state that hygiene rules are not implemented in prisons and prisoners have difficulty accessing health care.

The Sub-Governor’s Office of Nusaybin has announced that the police officer who chased children playing in front of their homes with a gun and fired his gun into the air has been suspended from duty and investigated.

It has been announced that 44 prisoners have tested positive for COVID-19 in Silivri Prison. But, how were the prisoners taken to the hospital? Were the vehicles disinfected after that? Are there adequate measures to protect prisoners and wardens?

The indictment issued against journalists for reporting on the funeral of an intelligence officer killed in Libya demands penalization as per the Article 329/1 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK) and Article 27 of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) law.

Sayılğan had spent 1,137 days behind bars before being released by a court of appeal.

Having ended his death fast on the 323rd day on May 5, Grup Yorum music band member İbrahim Gökçek has lost his life at the hospital where he was treated.

Development Workshop has released a report on the lives of seasonal agricultural workers in Turkey in the days of coronavirus pandemic. Ayşe Özsoy from Development Workshop has answered the questions of bianet.

Raising concerns over the conditions of prisons and ill prisoners amid coronavirus outbreak, rights organizations have reiterated that preventive measures against the outbreak need to be implemented in prisons immediately.

It has been 48 years since Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan, the leading figures of the 68 Generation, were executed. They have been commemorated with carnations on their death anniversary.

Arrested on April 3 over a tweet where he mocked the fundraising campaign launched by President Erdoğan against coronavirus outbreak, journalist Hakan Aygün has been released.

According to the annual report of the Human Rights Association (İHD), 1,344 meetings and demonstrations were intervened last year and 3,935 people were subjected to beating and ill treatment during these interventions.

Grup Yorum music band has announced that its bass guitarist İbrahim Gökçek has ended his death fast on the 323rd day.

The Circassian exile and genocide on May 21, 1864 have made the front-page headline in the new issue of monthly Jıneps / Free Voice of Circassians newspaper. “Facing the past liberates,” the headline has read.

In examining the objections of six journalists behind bars due to their news on the funeral of an intelligence officer, the court apparently did not inform their attorneys, summoned other lawyers from the bar and ruled for the continuation of their pre-trial detention.

HDP Ağrı MP Taşdemir has submitted a Parliamentary question regarding the difficulties in accessing hygiene products and medical treatment in the prison where 72-year-old former MP Halil Aksoy is also behind bars.

CHP and HDP MPs have released statements in the 83rd year of Dersim Massacre. The MPs have demanded the establishment of a Truth and Confrontation Commission, opening of the archives and trial of perpetrators, albeit in their absence.

İbrahim Gökçek of the Grup Yorum music band has been on a death fast for 322 days, demanding the release of the band's members and the end of concert bans.

In a written statement, Amnesty International has noted that “the COVID-19 crisis has added a new layer to the crackdown on media freedom in Turkey with journalists being targeted across the country under the guise of combating misinformation.”