Standing trial due to their participation in the Özgür Gündem daily Editors-in-Chief on Watch campaign Ayşe Düzkan, Mehmet Ali Çelebi and Ragıp Duran as well as Özgür Gündem’s former co-Editor-in-Chief Hüseyin Aykol and writer Hüseyin Bektaş are facing 46 years in prison.

HDP MP Nursel Aydoğan has been relieved of her MP duties.

CHP Leader Kılıçdaroğlu has touched on the subject of sick prisoners in the party group meeting, asked why the 841 sick prisoners are not released.

Journalist Canan Coşkun has been sentenced to 10 months on charge of “publicly insulting the military or the security organization of the state” in a news article she had written.

Organized by the SPoD, the Disabled LGBTI Days are beginning. The events that will combine Disability Week and May 17 International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia will be held from May 17-19 and 20.

A police officer, who entered into a house with panzer through the wall and caused death of two children in Silopi district of Şırnak, has been arrested.

Friends of journalist Ahmet Şık, who has been in custody for 130 days, have celebrated Şık’s birthday with the photos they have published on the newspapers.

Asylum applications of some of the soldiers who were assigned in Germany as part of the NATO mission and were relieved of their duties following the July 15 coup attempt, have been accepted.

The winners of the “Ayşe Nur Zarakolu Freedom of Thought and Expression Award” which will be given for the 15th time this year have been announced. The award ceremony will be held in Human Rights Foundation office.

The Pride March has been banned by the İstanbul Technical University presidency. Cins Arı has said “Neither State of Emergency, nor the university presidency can prevent one from being proud of being LGBTI+. We have existed in this or that way and will continue to exist”.

A commemoration ceremony was held at first light of Saturday for Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan, the three well known leaders of the 68 generation.

Seven convicted girls have been wounded in an incident that occurred in Bozkurt Open Women and Children’s Prison. The institution called the psychologists for duty

Police have raided Belge Publishing House and seized 2.000 books.

Curfews have been declared in 16 villages in Diyarbakır, and 19 villages in Bingöl.

Selin Sayek Böke has declared that she resigned from all of her duties at the party, and said “I don’t find it appropriate to be a part of this management understanding at this stage”.

Sıla Abalay aged 18 were killed in an operation launched by the İstanbul Anti-Terror Directorate units in Küçükçekmece on Saturday.

Arrested Die Welt correspondent Deniz Yücel noted that he did not want to be handed over to anywhere and that his only demand was to have a fair trial. Yücel also criticized President Erdoğan for calling him a “terrorist” where there hasn’t even been any bill of indictment yet.

A group of Peace Academics have gone on hunger strike in support of Gülmen and Özakça, who demand that they be returned to their work and went on hunger strike.

The UNESCO World Press Freedom Day 2017 Conference has done its closing with the the Jakarta Declaration which included recommendations for UNESCO, its members and civil society.

Kemal Gün has been on hunger strike for 70 days to retrieve body of his son who was killed in airstrike in Dersim.