JINNEWS editor Gülşen Koçuk, who was detained with 20 of her colleagues in Diyarbakır and released with judicial control on the 8th day, stated that they were threatened, held for hours in handcuffs while being taken to the courthouse and said, "We will write for ourselves and for them."
Visiting the Şenyaşar family and drawing attention to the judicial holiday, İHD Urfa Branch Co-Chair Mustafa Vefa said: "We are closing this judicial year as well, before we pay our debt of justice to the Şenyaşar family."
The lawyers of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and İmralı Prison Directorate to urgently meet with their client.
Stating that the paramilitary structures established after JITEM aimed to prevent Kurdish movement in the region with the crimes they committed, IHD Co-Chair Eren Keskin said, "These paramilitary structures are free to do anything while civil society considered to be terrorists."
Showing the photograph presented by the police as "evidence" after the detention and arrest of journalists, HDP's Şevin Coşkun said: "This photo is the clearest indicator of how helpless the government, the police and the judiciary are in the face of real journalism."
One of the imprisoned journalists, JINNEWS Manager Safiye Alagaş has been the voice of women and children for 15 years despite all threats. Speaking about Alagaş, who received the "Courage Award in Journalism", her colleague Arjin Dilek Öncel said, "Safiye persistanly did her job."
While the Kurdish journalists are behind bars for the last week, Piya and Ari Production companies are still under police blockade for the last 15 days. The lawyers of the journalists are still not informed about the search that continues since June 8.
Continuing the Justice Watch, the Şenyaşar family editted a photo of Emine Şenyaşar and Emine Erdoğan in the same frame and asked, "Are these two mothers on the same boat?"
The Atlı family, battered by Turkish soldiers in the Xaşkan neighborhood of Başkale, stated that they were exposed to violence because they are Kurds, and described what happened as "oppression".
Animal rights organizations stated that a wave of violence has spread against them recently and made the following statement: "We are being targeted on Twitter, we are being killed".
Mehmet Erbey, who is being held in Düzce Type T Prison, stated that his belongings were stormed and they were subjected to a strip search during the raid on the wards, and that the draft of the book he had been working on for one and a half year was also confiscated.
During the detention of a citizen, 400 shell casings were collected in Başkale, where soldiers fired into the air for minutes and battered women. The committee examining the village will announce its report.
Imprisoned Xwebûn Newspaper Editor-in-Chief Mehmet Ali Ertaş has been working as a journalist for 20 years in the free press. His colleague Hakkı Boltan said, "He is the soul of the free press" for Ertaş.
The lawyers of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and İmralı Prison Directorate to urgently meet with their client.
Gökhan Dayık, Ahmet Ceylan and Serhat Kurt, who are among the attorneys who signed the petition to meet with PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan, held under isolation, reminded that the isolation is a crime against humanity and asked for a attorney's visit to be provided immediately.