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Given the unprecedented number of journalists in prison in Turkey, and the increasing number of freedom of expression trials, trial monitoring has become an important activity for Turkish and also international civil society organizations over the past few years. Turkey-based Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) and the International Press Institute (IPI) have led a project, funded by the European Commission and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, in which they observed 90 court sessions of 71 separate trials over a six-month period from July to December 2018 in ten different provinces in Turkey. This project was the topic of the seminar “Freedom of Expression Trials in Turkey: Justice Monitoring to Secure Journalists’ Rights” at Central European University.