Case Monitoring
Court sentences Nurcan Kaya to 1 year 3 months in prison over Kobanê tweet
Diyarbakır – Writer, human rights defender and lawyer Nurcan Kaya was sentenced to 1 year and 3 ...
Trial where journalist Cengiz Çandar is tried over a social media post is adjourned
İstanbul – The third hearing of the trial where journalist Cengiz Çandar, whom MLSA represents in court, ...
Trial where journalist Aziz Oruç faces terrorism related charges is adjourned
Ağrı – The fifth hearing of the trial where Aziz Oruç whom MLSA represents in court, faces ...
Trial where journalist Deniz Yücel is accused of insulting a prosecutor is adjourned again
İstanbul – The fourth hearing of the trial where Die Welt journalist Deniz Yücel whom MLSA represents ...
Prosecutor requests imprisonment of journalist Dindar Karataş
Van – The third hearing of the trial where journalist Dindar Karataş faces “membership of a terrorist ...
Trial of journalists who reported on torture in Van is adjourned until October
Van – The trial where five journalists are charged with “membership in a terrorist organization” due to ...
Human Rights
Joint Statement: Implementation of the ECtHR Judgement Must be Ensured, Osman Kavala Must be Released
Osman Kavala has been behind bars for 1413 days. The Committee of Ministers of the Council of ...
Pandemic in prisons: Cleaning supplies were not provided, rights were restricted
According to the results of a survey conducted by the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) in ...
Joint Statement: We are still here, we will always be here, we are not going anywhere either!
At this juncture in time, Turkey has been transformed into a country where demonization, accusation, pointing as ...
AKP’s Draft Bill on the Prevention of the Proliferation of WMD: “The final nail in the coffin of civil society”
Esra Koçak Mayda Ankara – On Wednesday December 16, the draft bill titled “Law on the Prevention ...
Unsolved III: ‘Coming together for truth and justice transcends borders’
The Media and Legal Studies Association (MLSA) organized its third “Unsolved” panel this year online on the ...
Joint Statement on the Bill for the Prevention of the Financing of the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
The 43-article “Bill for the Prevention of the Financing of the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction”, ...
Press Freedom
Upcoming Trials
Journalism and free speech trials: Week of October 11
This week, the hearings of several journalism and freedom of expression trials will be held. Below is the list of these hearings: October ...
Journalism and free speech trials: Week of October 4
This week, the hearings of several journalism and freedom of expression trials will be held. Below is ...
Journalism and free speech trials: Week of September 27
This week, the hearings of several journalism and freedom of expression trials will be held. Below is ...
