A decision of non-prosecution has been given for the criminal complaint regarding the detention and battery of the workers of Özgür Gündem newspaper, İMC TV and Dicle News Agency (DİHA), which were closed by a Statutory Decree, on August 16, 2016. The Bureau for Investigating Civil Servants’ Crimes of the Prosecutor’s Office stated, “In the event that police officers are met with resistance while fulfilling their duty, they are authorized to use force with the aim of breaking this resistance and to the extent that the related resistance can be broken (July 27).