Overview

• Six people, including cartoonist D.P., remain in pretrial detention on charges of insulting religious values
• The Justice Ministry is supervising an ongoing probe for incitement of hatred and offense to religious beliefs under Turkey’s penal code
• Istanbul prosecutors have seized the magazine’s latest issue and blocked LeMan’s social media profiles as part of the investigation
• LeMan maintains the cartoon depicted a Muslim civilian killed in bombings rather than the Prophet and has apologized to readers who found it offensive
• Around 250 conservative Muslim protesters attacked the magazine’s Istanbul offices, leading police to use rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the crowd