Cases

Yenikapı Theatre actors taken into custody

Five of the 47 people taken into custody in the İzmir-centred ESP (Socialist Party of the Oppressed) operation were detained. Another five people were confined to house arrest. 27 people, among whom five theatre actors who are also participants to the Speak Up Platform, were released on a judicial control decision.


The storybook ‘Magical Rainbow’ found obscene

The Board of Protection of Minors from Obscene Publications declares the book titled ‘Storybook Series 3: I am reading too – Magical Rainbow’, which was published as a children’s book, an obscene publication. The book can only be sold to individuals above 18 years of age, in an opaque bag.




Access to Speak Up Platform story blocked again

Access to a news story published on Speak Up Platform’s website Susma24.com about the denial of access to news about Aktif Bank’s bank transfers as revealed by the FinCEN files was also blocked on grounds that it “violated personal rights’





Musician Hozan Canê released from prison

Hozan Canê, who was tried and sentenced to six years and three months of imprisonment for alleged ‘membership to a terrorist organization’, has been released after spending 2 years in detention