Four rights organizations have announced in a press statement that they founded the 'Monitoring Commission for Hunger Strikes': "The feeling of the lack of a solution caused by injustice and unlawfulness will cause the number of hunger strikers to increase."

The Report on Perception of Discrimination has shown that those groups complaining about different types of discrimination have met on a common ground when it comes to perception of discrimination against migrants, Kurds and LGBTIs.

Research agency Forensic Architecture has released its report on lawyer Elçi's murder. Reconstructing the incident in a 3D digital model, the agency has announced that three police officers on the scene are the most likely suspects.

Academic Akyüz has been sentenced to 2 years, 6 months in prison for “knowingly and willingly aiding a terrorist organization as a non-member.” The court has not reduced the sentence “on the ground of his attitude and behavior during the hearing.”

Chair of the Great Unity Party (BBP) Destici has spoken about the declaration of April 24 as the Commemoration Day for the Armenian Genocide by France: “There are 100 thousand Armenians in Turkey. What I am saying is the following: Let’s deport them.”

In the case regarding the fire that took lives of six children in a Quran course building, one educator has been sentenced to 9 years and 3 months in prison while the other five defendants have been acquitted.

While academic Sinem Aydınlı has been given a deferred prison sentence of 1 year, 3 months, the Presiding Judge interrupted the defense of attorney Soydan, who said, “If our client came here today as a mafia leader, she would be acquitted."

In the trial regarding the news reports on National Intelligence Agency (MIT) trucks, the court has ruled that the file of Can Dündar shall be separated and adjourned the hearing of the case to May 15 so that Gül and Berberoğlu will make their last defenses.

Having his second hearing, lawyer Can Tombul from the Law Bureau of the Oppressed has stated, “If I was not arrested today, I would be at the hearing where police officers are tried for Suruç massacre.” The court has ruled for the continuation of his arrest.

Former CHP MP Eren Erdem has ended the hunger strike, which he began last week because "being tried for FETÖ hurts his pride".

Academics İnci Özkan Kerestecioğlu and Biriz Berksoy have been sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison. The court board of the İstanbul 36th Heavy Penal Court has ruled that the announcement of all three verdicts shall be deferred.

Speaking to bianet about the judicial process of Atilla Taş, Prof. Dr. Akdeniz has stated that they submitted a request for his release, emphasizing that a verdict of release on probation can be given for Taş since he has less than a year to serve in prison.

Three freedom of expression organizations have penned a letter and launched a petition for Metin Türfent, who has been imprisoned for 1,000 days. “We tell you that you are not alone,” the letter said.

HDP Ağrı MP Dirayet Dilan Taşdemir has submitted a parliamentary inquiry, requesting that a parliamentary investigation be launched into the allegations of battery and maltreatment as well as poor quality of water and epidemics in Patnos Prison.

HDP MP Danış Beştaş has submitted an application to Human Rights Commission of Parliament for 85-year-old ill prisoner Sise Bingöl. In a medical report previously issued for her, it was stated that “she doesn’t know her age, where she is or what year it is.”

The Platform for Libertarian Lawyers (ÖHP) has announced its report regarding the hunger strikes in prisons. The report stated that a hunger strike is not a way of suicide but protesting and that the inmates' rights to health and life are violated.

Amnesty International Turkey has launched a campaign and demanded that the street in front of the Consulate General of Saudi Arabia in İstanbul, where journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered, be renamed after the deceased journalist.

And indeed, it is those deeds that need to be defended, those acts that were carried out in accordance with the existing policies of the government, not me saying “Do not do this, solve the problems without resorting to violence.”

It has been 40 years since Editor-in-Chief and lead editor of Milliyet newspaper Abdi İpekçi lost his life in an armed attack. İpekçi has been commemorated at his grave in the 40th year of his death.

Producer of the “Çiçero” movie, whose premiere held in a concentration camp mise-en-scene has sparked criticisms on social media, has apologized: “I offer my apologies to our Jewish citizens if we have unintentionally offended them.”