Detention

Police have detained two educators, Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, who have been on hunger strike for 75 days in protest at being dismissed from their posts through a decree-law issued under the state of emergency rule in Turkey.  

The special operation police have also searched their house and confiscated some belongings in a late night raid on May 21.

Sead Kocan, who has spent the last two month in hiding after being charged by the Special Prosecution, SJO, with falsifying documents to win a big coal extraction tender in 2011, has reportedly reappeared in Macedonia after the Supreme Court controversially scrapped his arrest and detention warrant.

An Istanbul Court has ordered the release of a suspect in an arson attack on the Müjdat Gezen Arts and Culture Center in Istanbul's Kadıköy district, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

A 39-year-old Uzbek national suspected of mowing down a crowd of people on a busy Stockholm street in a stolen truck on Tuesday admitted committing "a terrorist crime," his lawyer said, according to APF.

Rakhmat "Akilov confesses to a terrorist crime and accepts his custody detention," his lawyer Johan Eriksson told a court custody hearing in Stockholm.

A court in Skopje has ordered big businessman and media baron Sead Kocan - who is known for close ties to former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski - to be arrested and put in detention for 30 days on suspicion of fixing a coal tender.

The detention of the Doğan Group's chief judicial adviser, along with a former chief executive officer of the holding, is an act of intimidation by the political power, the Istanbul Bar Association said in a written statement on Jan. 6. 

"This detention is an intimidation," it said, adding that the government was seeking to create its own narrative during the current period.

A Bulgarian court has decided to keep in detention the Afghan national who allegedly set fire to a national flag at a migrant reception center.

About 20,000 migrants have passed through the Sofia Busmantsi Detention Centre. The situation is beyond extreme. Given a capacity of 940 migrants, there are now 1,631 persons or an occupancy rate of 174% . There are 395 persons registered outside the Detention Centre living at their own expense.

Yet another journalist has been detained in Turkey for social media postings and is being interrogated by counter-terrorism police in Istanbul.

"If guilty, she or he should be on trial under arrest."

If she or he is guilty then she or he is not on trial because if it can be said of that person that she or he is guilty, then it means the trial has already ended. There is already a sentence and that person should be put in a prison cell for serving jail time, not in prison cell for those under detention.