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A rights group consists of lawyers making advocacy to ensure lawyers and human rights defenders perform their duty without fear of intimidation, reprisal and judicial harassment.

The Arrested Lawyers Initiative is the member of the International Observatory for Lawyers.

• New Report: ‘The Crackdown’ against lawyers in Turkey

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 10 December 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  The Arrested Lawyers Initiative published published its new report on the systematic attacks against the legal profession in Turkey.

  The report reveals 474 lawyers have been sentenced to a total of 2,966 years in prison.

• New Report: Legal and Technical Issues Around Turkey’s Malicious Bylock Prosecutions

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 30 November 2021 • ( 1 )

  

    The Arrested Lawyers Initiative published a new report titled ‘Legal and Technical Issues Around Turkey’s Malicious Bylock Prosecutions‘ on criminalization of the usage of Bylock app that victimized more than 90,000 individuals. “Bylock data is not lawful and admissible… Read More ›

• Three NGOs called on Interpol for legal and structural reforms to ensure that Interpol’s leaders adhere to high moral standards

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 16 November 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  The Norwegian Helsinki Committee, the Italian Federation for Human Rights and the Arrested Lawyers Initiative called on the General Assembly of INTERPOL for legal and structural reforms to ensure that Interpol’s leaders adhere to high moral standards. In a joint… Read More ›

• 45 NGOs call on Interpol General Assembly to implement long overdue reforms

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 16 November 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  On the eve of the 89th General Assembly of the INTERPOL, 64 civil society organisations and individuals including renowned human rights activists, MPs and MEPs called for further reform to ensure that the INTERPOL complies with the Universal Declaration of… Read More ›

• European Commission 2021 Turkey Report: Serious backsliding continued on human rights

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 19 October 2021

  

  The authorities undermined fair trial guarantees by targeting lawyers for their professional activities. Lawyers continued to be subject to increasing pressure, taken into custody, detained, exposed to legal harassment through investigations and criminal proceedings.