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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.

• A Turkish-style Cambridge-Analytica Scandal: Erdogan’s bulk reach into the digital presence of Turkish citizens

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 18 June 2022

  

  A current revelation on the involvement of the Turkish authority for information and communication technologies (BTK) in bulk collection of telecommunication data on Turkish citizens indicates a Turkish-style Cambridge Analytica Scandal in the making. 

• Report: Protection of lawyers against undue interference in the free and independent exercise of the legal profession

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 9 June 2022

  

  The UN Special Rapporteur presented his report on the Protection of lawyers against undue interference in the free and independent exercise of the legal profession to the 50th Human Rights Council that is to be held in Geneva between 13… Read More ›

• [Analysis] Members of the Turkish judiciary are promoted based on the extent of their crackdown on government critics

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 8 June 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  Erdoğan is widely criticized for taking the Turkish judiciary under his absolute control, particularly after the coup attempt in 2016, and for destroying the separation of powers. The appointment of such notorious judicial figures to posts in the Ministry of Justice dashes any hope of the possibility of a fair trial when Erdoğan dissidents are prosecuted.

• European Parliament condemned the crackdown on lawyers in Turkey and call for the release of imprisoned lawyers

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 8 June 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  The European Parliament particularly condemned continuing crackdown on lawyers. MEP said:

  the Parliament “is appalled by reports of a pattern of persecution of lawyers representing individuals accused of terrorism whereby the lawyers were prosecuted for the same crime as that attributed to their client.”

• Top Turkish judicial body will not punish judges who defy the Constitutional Court judgments

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 7 June 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  The Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) has decided that it would not take action against the judges who defied the judgment of the Constitutional Court dated January 2018 ordering the release of writer Mehmet Altan that causing him to… Read More ›