Journalists İdris Özyol, Ergin Çevik, Hakan Denizli, Sabahattin Önkibar and Yavuz Selim Demirağ have been physically assaulted over the last two weeks.

Prevented from holding their weekly sit-in protests at Galatasaray Square in İstanbul since their 700th gathering, Saturday Mothers/People have laid carnations on the square in the 24th year of their first protest in Galatasaray.

Visiting the ones detained in Halfeti, lawyer Sözen has stated that though they requested referral of the detained to Forensic Medicine Institution to identify torture marks, their request has not been responded. Their period of detention has been extended.

Making a statement after imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan’s call for an end to hunger strikes and death fasts, HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven has announced that she has ended her hunger strike, which she was continuing for 200 days.

An armed attack has been launched against Hakan Denizli, the Grant Holder of Adana-based Egemen local newspaper. Being taken to hospital after the incident, Denizli’s state of health has been reportedly good.

“Freedom of Speech in Prison” book prepared by Korkut and Demirbaş from the Civil Society in the Penal System (CİSST) Association focuses on the restrictions imposed on prisoners’ freedom of speech and the recommendations to overcome them.

Wikipedia has appealed to the European Court of Human Rİghts (ECtHR) against the access block imposed by Turkey to the online encyclopedia. Access to Wikipedia has been blocked in Turkey for the last two years.

Sevinç Özgüner Human Rights, Peace and Democracy Award has been granted to Saturday Mothers/People this year. Speaking in the award ceremony, Jiyan Tosun has said, “Not losing our hopes is the only thing that we need. Conscience will win.”

While the anonymous witness could not be heard in the ninth hearing of the case filed against 27 people including journalist Meşale Tolu, Tolu has announced that the passport of her husband has been confiscated in Turkey.

Having informed against themselves in support of Academics for Peace, two of 17 people have had their first hearings. Charged with “terror propaganda” just like the academics, the people in question will be tried in separate cases.

Examining the application of imprisoned businessperson and rights defender Osman Kavala after two years, the Constitutional Court has ruled by a majority vote that there is no violation of rights committed by his arrest.

Upon the objection of the Public Prosecutor, the Eskişehir 1st Heavy Penal Court has reversed the verdict of Eskişehir 1st Judgeship of Execution, which accepted the request of Academic for Peace Prof. Dr. Füsun Üstel for transfer to an open prison.

Are we going to turn our pain into more violence, hate, pain and injustice, or into steps that multiply life, beauty, love, peace and justice?

In order to heal the traumas transmitted from one generation to the other, and to come out of the cycles of violence we have been suffering from, we need reparative justice more than ever.

Rezan Sarıca and Newroz Uysal, the lawyers of imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, have gone to İmralı Prison to meet him after 20 days. In their last meeting on May 2, his lawyers could meet Öcalan after 8 years and over 800 applications.

The women who were subjected to police violence while standing watch in front of Gebze Prison in Kocaeli for their relatives who are on a hunger strike in prison have filed a criminal complaint against the responsible parties.

Eskişehir 1st Judgeship of Execution has accepted Üstel’s request for transfer to an open prison by referring to a verdict by Supreme Court of Appeals, which ruled, “The ones convicted of terror propaganda cannot be deemed a terrorist organization member.”

Having her final hearing at the İstanbul 25th Heavy Penal Court, Academic for Peace Ayşe Gül Altınay has been sentenced to 2 years and 1 month in prison on charge on “knowingly and willingly aiding a terrorist organization as a non-member.”

Peoples’ Democratic Congress (HDK) Peoples and Beliefs Commission: “Genocide is a crime against humanity and there is no timeout. We did not forget, will not forget, will not make it forgotten.”

The Constitutional Court will examine the application of Osman Kavala in its meeting on May 22. Speaking to bianet, lawyer Turgut Kazan has stated that “the court should give its judgement by considering its own prestige and without feeling any fear.”