The People's Law Bureau confirmed that teacher Sibel Balaç was released from the prisoner's ward of the Etlik City Hospital in the capital of Ankara.

A court has postponed the enforcement of teacher Sibel Balaç's prison sentence after 298 days of death fast demanding a fair trial.

Balaç was taken for treatment in another ward of the hospital.

Balaç, 33, from Tekirdağ, is a teacher for children with serious disabilities. While working in the southern city of Antalya, she began to attend the "I Want My Job Back" protest in Ankara's Yüksel Street. The protests were held by civil servants dismissed during the state of emergency period following the 2016 coup attempt protests.

Following the arrest of the protesters, she resigned from her school and began to attend the protests full-time.

She was arrested in December 2018 and was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison.