Educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça started a sit-in in front of the Human Rights statue in Ankara with the demand to be reinstated at their posts they had been expelled from by a Statutory Decree. The educators who later turned to a hunger strike in March were jailed on May 23 and they continue their hunger strike in prison since.

During the third hearing of the case against the two imprisoned educators, Ankara 19th High Criminal Court decided to release Semih Özakça and continue the pre-trial detention of Gülmen, who refused to attend the hearing through video-conferencing system SEGBİS from the hospital room where she is held.

Özakça was then released from prison, on condition of “ankle monitor”, in an ambulance, seen to have lost very much hair and weight. Police forces prevented the press from recording the release of Özakça who was accompanied by his wife after getting out of prison.