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Spokesperson for the EU Commission Kocijanic has spoken on Kavala, who has been in custody for seven days, in the statement she made about the eight rights defenders who were released today.

Businessperson Kavala known with his NGO works, has been detained on his return from a meeting of a project planned to be realized in cooperation with Goethe Institute in Antep.

The students who wanted to mark the Ankara massacre at İstanbul University have been battered and detained.

The wife and the child of the US İstanbul General Consulate staff, who is subjected to a detention warrant and refuses to leave the consulate building, have been taken into custody.

It has been alleged that a detention warrant has been issued for another US Embassy staff following the arrest of US Embassy staff Topuz. Minister of Justice Abdülhamit Gül rejected the allegations.

2 Attorneys of Gülmen and Özakça who are on a hunger strike have been released after testifying before prosecutor’s office after four days in detention.

Being detained in Tatvan district in Bitlis, HDP Bitlis MP Mizgin Irgat has been released.

10 rights advocates taken into custody during a training workshop in Büyükada were brought before prosecutor’s office on their 13th day in detention, verdict is waited for Üstün, Özbekli, Taştan, Eser, Steudtner, Dalkıran, Erkem, Kurşun, Acu and Özbekli.

Being detained in Büyükada in İstanbul, eight human rights advocates have been referred to four police stations in districts of Maltepe, Pendik and Kartal. Two educators are kept in Büyükada.

Barış Atay has been detained by the gendarmerie in Dalyan district in Muğla on the ground of a detention warrant issued for him.

HDP Batman MP Aslan has been detained at the Batman Airport where he came to fly to Ankara.

HDP İstanbul MP and Parliamentary Deputy Speaker Pervin Buldan has been released after having given her statement.

Human rights organizations have demanded that Chair of Amnesty International Turkey, refugee rights defender and attorney Kılıç be released.

Amnesty International Secretary General Shetty has stated that Taner Kılıç has a long and distinguished record of defending exactly the kind of freedoms that the Turkish authorities are now intent on trampling.

11 people in Kadıköy, 12 in Beşiktaş have been detained during the protests staged in support of Gülmen and Özakça, who are on hunger strike. Seven-day detention has been issued for those detained in Kadıköy.

Police have “detained” the Human Rights Monument and encircled the area with barriers because Gülmen and Özakça were detained on the grounds that “it might trigger an event like Gezi Resistance or Tekel Resistance”.

Nine people who were detained during staging a protest in support of Gülmen and Özakça in Kadıköy have been released.

The people who wanted to get to the Taksim Square on May 1 were detained on the İstiklal Street last night. Police detained two others walking towards the Taksim Square this morning.

Two of the 16 people who were detained for running “No” campaign in the referendum, and for joining “No” demonstrations in Kadıköy and referred to court for arrest, have been released on probation.

TKP member, attorney Aktaş, who canvassed for ‘no’ for constitutional amendment referendum, has been in custody for five days over “FETÖ” charge.