The Muş 2nd Heavy Penal Court has ruled that journalist Seda Taşkın shall be sentenced to 7 years and 6 months in prison.

20 of over 100 people, who were detained in Diyarbakır yesterday and among whom were also journalists and politicians, have been released after giving their testimonies.

Prof. Dr. Naz Çavuşoğlu, research assistant Can Soylu, Prof. Dr. H.K.A. and retired Prof. Dr. Gençay Gürsoy from İstanbul University and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Buket Türkmen and Dr. Lecturer Gülsün Güvenli from Galatasaray University have had their second hearings.

The next hearing of 13 journalists, who have been tried for participating in the Editors-in-Chief on Watch campaign launched for the Özgür Gündem newspaper, which was closed as per a Statutory Decree, will be held on March 28, 2019.

The tenth hearing in the main trial of Özgür Gündem newspaper, which was closed as per a Statutory Decree, has been held. While the court board has lifted the international travel ban of Eren Keskin, it has ruled that the arrest of Kemal Sancılı shall continue.

Three years have passed since the Ankara Massacre on October 10, 2015, which claimed the lives of 103 people and injured more than 500 others. The police has not allowed the commemoration to be held in Ankara and battered one person. Upon the reaction of people, the police has permitted entrance to the site of commemoration.

UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani has made a call to “conduct a prompt and impartial investigation into the circumstances of journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance and to make the findings public.”

Minister of Treasury and Finance Berat Albayrak has stated that it is not mandatory for companies to participate in the 10-percent discount campaign and called the citizens to prefer the ones that will take part in the campaign.

After his demand for being treated in a hospital has been accepted, ill prisoner Vefa Kartal has ended his hunger strike on its 96th day.

The Prosecutor’s Office has announced its opinion as to the accusations regarding academics Mungan, Camcı, Kaya and Ersoy in their eighth hearing held 30 months after they were arrested. The office has demanded that the academics be penalized.

The next hearing of the case, which has been filed against Önderoğlu, Nesin and Korur-Fincancı on charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” after they solidarized with the closed Özgür Günden newspaper, will be held in January 2019.

In an attack that was launched on the district of Çukurca in Hakkari from Zap region, one soldier has lost his life. One civilian and three soldiers have also been injured.