Security forces have once again intervened against the people protesting appointment of trustees to three Metropolitan Municipalities. In Van, police officers have used violence on the ones who took shelter in a coffeehouse.

"They are aware that they have been left to die," Lawyer Gülizar Tuncer said about the plight of prisoners who are arrested at the Metris Type-R Prison, a penal institution for seriously ill prisoners.

Literary critic Ayşegül Tözeren has sent a message through her lawyer.

Appointment of trustees to HDP municipalities has been protested in İstanbul, Van, Mardin and Diyarbakır. The police have intervened against the protests. While 6 journalists have been detained in Mardin and Diyarbakır, the injured MPs have been hospitalized.

CHP Ankara MP Hakverdi has appealed to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) Human Rights Investigation Commission, requesting that the allegations of torture in Elazığ Prison be investigated by the Parliament.

Saturday Mother Elmas Eren has lost her life at the age of 88. Together with other Saturday Mothers/People, Eren has been struggling to learn the fate of her son Hayrettin Eren, who was disappeared in custody after the coup in 1980.

Journalist Ziyan Karahan, who is working for the Kurdish service of Mezopotamya Agency (MA), has been detained in a house raid in Diyarbakır.

Journalist Ergin Çağlar, a reporter for the Mezopotamya Agency, has been taken into custody in Mersin Courthouse. Çağlar has been detained on charge “being a member of a terrorist organization”, it has been reported.

It was on November 21, 2016, shortly after the attempted coup on July 15, when holding demonstrations and organizing events have been banned for reasons of security in Van. On August 12, the ban has been extended once again.

Held in İmralı Type F High-Security Closed Prison to serve his aggravated life sentence, PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan has met his brother Mehmet Öcalan. The meeting has been announced by the Asrın Law Bureau on social media.

Dr. Özgüç has announced that she has resigned from İstanbul Aydın University after she was listed among 1,071 academics who released a joint declaration denouncing the Constitutional Court ruling on Academics for Peace without her consent.

We have talked to news websites sendika.org, ETHA and Fersude about the access blocks imposed on their entire content by the penal judgeships of peace at different times: “They block access without giving any reason. Objections remain inconclusive”.

Four medical personnel have been arrested for having treated a child in the southeastern Şırnak province during the 2015-2016 conflict inthe region.

The Gendarmerie General Command requested an access block on bianet "by mistake" and applied to the court for the removal of the order, it has been revealed.

"Is it possible to consider the block order an independent judicial decision?" MP Kerestecioğlu has asked the Justice Minister.

In further reaction to the court order of an access block on 136 web addresses, journalism and human rights organizations released statements.

The HRW statement also includes interviews with the four men's wives.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have reported the access block imposed on 136 websites and social media accounts by a court order to the Council of Europe (CoE).

Journalism organizations have criticized the court ruling that imposes an access block on bianet.org and 135 other URLs.

Access to all content of bianet which consists of more than 200 thousand news reports and articles shall be blocked according to the court order.