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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.
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European Commission 2021 Turkey Report: Serious backsliding continued on human rights
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.
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Third Party Intervention by FIDU on the abusive use of Turkish anti-terror provision
FIDU – Italian Federation for Human Rights / Italian Helsinki Committee pursuant to the permission given by the European Court of Human Rights prepared a legal expert opinion on the abusive and unforeseeable use of anti-terror provision, namely Art. 314 of… Read More ›
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Mexican Supreme Court of Justice: Urgent action requests of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances are binding and mandatory
With a historic judgment, the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice concluded that urgent action requests of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances were binding and mandatory to states party to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
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Constitutional Court judgment exposes the police torture against Turkish lawyer Gürsu Avcı
The Turkish Constitutional Court established that Turkish lawyer Gürsu Avcı was tortured in a police station where he went to provide legal counsel with three suspects. (Gürsu Avcı, B. No: 2017/20159, 13/4/2021) On 19.07.2016, Mr Avcı, who was assigned by… Read More ›
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ECtHR: Arrest and pretrial detention of justices Erdal Tercan and Alparslan Altan is unlawful
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the arrest, pretrial detention and house search of the purged justice of the Turkish Constitutional Court (TCC) breached a number of human rights violations and ordered damages to be paid. The judgment is not a surprise as the ECtHR reached the same conclusion in the case of Alparslan Altan who was the other purged justice of the TCC.
The Arrested Lawyers Initiative 