Three members of Kaos GL’s supervisory board were ordered released from pretrial detention in Ankara on 11 November, the Turkish LGBTQ+ rights association said.

The court kept four members of the association’s executive board and a journalist in pretrial detention. The first hearing is due at Ankara’s 27th Criminal Court of First Instance on 24 December.

The detentions followed an operation that began in September and targeted LGBTQ+ groups and rights defenders. Kaos GL said prosecutors cited its coverage of LGBTQ+ subjects in the indictment, including a review of the television series Agatha All Along and an article about anti-LGBTQ+ laws in Georgia.

The Ankara criminal case is separate from the case in Istanbul, where prosecutors are asking a court to close the LGBTQ+ rights group SPoD.