A recent study has found a higher risk of abnormal heartbeats that could cause a heart attack in coronavirus patients treated with hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine.

HDP MP Feleknas Uca has submitted a parliamentary question about precautions against the coronavirus outbreak at a prison in Bayburt, northeastern Turkey.

According to the Health Ministry figures, the country records nearly 1,000 new cases a day.

The Ministry of Health has announced that Turkey’s coronavirus death toll has risen to 4,369 and the total number of cases to 157,814. 29 people have died of the virus and 987 people have tested positive in the last 24 hours.

While two people were detained in Tekirdağ during a police intervention for allegedly violating the curfew, the officers who battered them while taking into custody have been suspended from duty and an investigation has been launched against them.

“Deep poverty refers to a chronic state of abject poverty faced by those living under starvation line,” says Hacer Foggo from the Deep Poverty Network, noting that the state needs to intervene in this poverty with a mindset of social state after the pandemic.

Arrested lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal have been on a death fast for their right to a fair trial. Lawyers Güçlü Sevimli and Yaprak Türkmen and law apprentice Naim Feyzullah Eminoğlu have spoken to bianet about their colleagues.

Conducting surveys with 1,162 refugees in Turkey, the Association for Solidarity with Asylum Seekers and Migrants (ASAM) has released a report regarding how the coronavirus outbreak has affected the lives of refugees in the country.

In a petition for urgent action launched by Amnesty International, it has been noted that “the lives of thousands of prisoners and prison personnel are at greater risk in overcrowded prisons deprived of hygiene conditions.”

Detained in Diyarbakır on May 22, 12 people including Democratic Regions Party (DBP) former Co-Chairs Arslan and Şimşek have been arrested. The other six detained, including former HDP MP Akat Ata, have been released on probation.

Chairs of Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Van and Batman Chambers of Commerce and Industry say that the most important areas of employment are now closed. “No one has suffered in Antep thanks to state support,” according to Chair of Antep Industry Chamber.

According to a recent report released by the Checks and Balances Network, one out of every three people in Turkey does not believe that the law will protect them if the state or a person representing the state is at fault.