Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have released a joint statement and called on Turkey to carry out the ECtHR ruling and release arrested businessperson Osman Kavala from prison immediately.

HDP has released a report on the violations of rights committed in 2019 on the occasion of Human Rights Week. The report has shown that 1,674 HDP members and executives were detained and 200 of them were arrested this year.

A 23-year-old university student has been sentenced to prison after a cap with a star and a book about a communist leader were found in his home.

In the wake of ECtHR verdict of right violation, the attorneys of arrested businessperson Osman Kavala have released a written statement: “We consider the ECtHR verdict to be a just, but a long-overdue legal gain.”

Participated by 2,651 people from 28 cities, Amnesty International survey on human rights perception has shown that while 82.1 percent of the society think that their basic rights and freedoms are violated, 62.6 percent think that they are restricted.

International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) has released a statement on the occasion of Human Rights Day. Referring to the popular uprisings, it has underlined that they "are united in their rejection of an elitist socio-economic model."

Speaking to bianet on the occasion of Human Rights Day, rights defenders Hakan Tahmaz, Gülseren Yoleri, Şebnem Korur Fincancı, Ali İhsan Gültekin, Derya Yolcu, Bülent Aydın and Tarık Beyhan said that violations of rights continued in 2019.

HDP’s Muradiye District Co-Mayor Yılmaz Şalan and Özalp District Co-Mayors Dilan Örenci and Yakup Almaç have been arrested. They were taken into custody in house raids in Turkey’s eastern province of Van on December 6.

Council of Europe has issued a statement for December 10 Human Rights Day. Referring to the achievements gained in terms of human rights, the statement has also directed self-criticism at the European Court of Human Rights.

Speaking at the panel discussion on Kurdish question organized by Tahir Elçi Human Rights Foundation, Diyarbakır Representative to Right Initiative Ruhavioğlu has said that Kurdish question is an ethno-political problem, beyond a solely ethnic one.

In the lawsuit filed against a sports teacher for battering a child with autism, the attorney of the defendant has said, “It was my client who suffered”. The expert report has also indicated that the child was subjected to physical and psychological violence.

According to the “Prison Statistics 2018” of the TurkStat, prison population of Turkey has increased by 14 percent in one year. As of December 31, 2018, there were 264 thousand 842 people behind bars, the Institute has informed.

A ministry order has paved the way for a trustee to be appointed as the Armenian Patriarch of Turkey, the group has said.

The killing of five prisoners during the operation remained unidentified as all defendants have been acquitted.

Sadiye Eser and Sadık Topaloğlu, reporters for the Mezopotamya Agency, have been arrested on charge of “being members of a terrorist organization” based on the statements of an anonymous witness.

The report of the initiative covers the violations of freedom of expression, free assembly and peaceful demonstrations in Turkey in October 2019.

Referred to hospital yesterday after feeling unwell in prison last week, former HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş has been taken back to the Edirne Prison after medical examinations.

Indicating that press cards have been changed in order to “prevent the use irregular and fake press cards”, Vice President Oktay has announced that the press cards of 685 journalists have been cancelled over “national security” concerns.

Batman Heavy Penal Court has ruled that a lawsuit shall be filed against former Diyarbakır Bar Association Chair and executive board members over their declaration on April 24, charging them with “inciting the public to enmity and hatred."

Tahir Elçi, the then chairperson of the Diyarbakır Bar Association, was shot dead during a press statement in the southeastern city. His murder has still not been solved.