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Sentenced to 1 year, 3 months in prison over her tweet “Makhmur camp has been captured by ISIS…,” Sabiha Temizkan has been acquitted by the court of appeals.

Hakan Aygün has been sentenced to 7 months, 15 days in prison over a tweet containing a wordplay with IBAN and "iman," which means "faith" in Turkish.

The Constitutional Court has concluded that the right to personal liberty and security of journalist Hakan Aygün has been violated by his arrest over a tweet containing a wordplay with IBAN and "iman," which means "faith" in Turkish in a religious context.

Standing trial for having tweeted about Judge Akın Gürlek, journalist Söğütlü testified at court, where she also referred to the controversial “Lights are on” tweet of a Constitutional Court member. Her lawyer Öztürk has spoken to bianet about the trial.

Targeted by social media trolls due to her tweet criticizing capital punishment, actress Berna Laçin faces up to 1 year in prison.

Government Spokesperson Bozdağ has said that “There is not a single soul who was arrested in Turkey for posting tweet”, however, there are probes against tens of thousands of people, and 1,656 people were arrested only during March-August 2016, according to the Ministry of Interior.

The court has rejected the indictment prepared against fashion designer Şansal on charge of “inciting people to animosity and enmity” on the ground that “There is no certain and convincing evidence”. The complainant is Presidency in the indictment.

LGBTI activist and lawyer Levent Pişkin was sentenced to 10 thousand liras more in fines because of his “fag” tweet. Lacking the means to pay the fine, Pişkin plans to start a solidarity campaign.