Entered into force on 1 June 2005 together with a package of reforms intended to facilitate the opening of Turkey's accession process to the EU, it was amended on 30 April 2008 to change 'Turkishness' to 'Turkish nation'.
Many intellectuals, journalists, writers, and men and women of culture were accused and tried thanks to Law 301.
Recently, several journalists have been charged with using 301 for criticizing the military operations of invading Afrin in 2018 and the Federation of Northeast Syria in October 2019.
The film features musicians Sanar Yurdatapan (jailed several times for his advocacy of freedom of expression), Ferhat Tunç (now forced to live in exile), journalists Ertugrul Kurkçu (also a former HDP MP, forced to live in exile), Ahmet Altan (still in prison), Ragip Zarakoglu (also a publisher, also forced to live in exile), former mayor of Sur Abdullah Demirbas (in exile), lawyer and co-president of the Human Rights Association (IHD, on trial for her editorials published in the newspaper Ozgur Gundem, closed by government decree), Ruzgar Gokce (a member of the harassed LAMBDA Istanbul, an LGBT organization), and Rodi (a Kurdish political refugee in Venice).
