ANKARA | 04-01-2014 |Twelve child inmates in Ankara’s Sincan prison were battered by prison officers this week. After the assault the children were subject to, eight among them were transferred to other jails on Friday; four to the Şakran prison in the western province of İzmir and four others to the Maltepe prison in Istanbul. The transfers have reportedly been ...

AMED| 03-01-2014 |Diyarbakır 5th High Criminal Court has unanimously ruled the release of BDP’s (Peace and Democracy Paty) two jailed deputies Gülser Yıldırım and İbrahim Ayhan. The court ruling for the release of two deputies came after the Constitutional Court accepted the application made by detained Yıldırım and Ayhan, who are in custody in the KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) trial, ...

ISTANBUL | 03-01-2014 | Media Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation on “Başlangıç”, a documentary on Gezi Resistance produced by 49/51 Film and directed by Serkan Koç, for “insulting public workers” and “igniting public towards vengeance and hostility”. “In my statement today, I refused all charges on the case. The person who ignites public to vengeance and hostility is PM Recep ...

ISTANBUL | 02-01-2014 | The Supreme Court of Appeals Prosecutor’s Office has sent to Istanbul 10th High Criminal Court the judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeals which approved the 8 year 9 month sentence for HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) Co-chair Sebahat Tuncel. It is reported that the judgment will be read out in the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) ...

PHNOM PHEN | 03-01-2014 | Cambodian security forces fired on garment workers protesting in the country’s capital Friday, killing at least three people. The workers, who have been demonstrating since last week to demand higher wages, clashed with riot and military police outside the Canadia industrial park in southwestern Phnom Penh, where many garment factories are located. Protesters threw rocks, ...

ATİK GENERAL COUNCIL | 01-01-2014 | WE WELCOME THE NEW YEAR WITH THE SPIRIT OF GEZI RESİSTANCE! 2014 Shall be ours! 2014 shall be full of struggle and hope for the workers and the oppressed! Since the early days of year 2000 we have witnessed uprisings which are increasing in terms of numbers and amplitude which has spread to a ...