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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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Special Rapporteur on torture: impunity threatens governmental legitimacy
Dr. Alice Edwards, UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment submitted its report titled “Good practices in national criminalization, investigation, prosecution and sentencing for offences of torture” to the Human Rights Council during… Read More ›
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Is the Turkish judiciary turning into a criminal syndicate?
The question is presently not whether the Turkish judiciary, including civil and criminal courts and the prosecution, has been corrupted to the core, but whether this corruption can ever be amended, even with the possibility of Erdogan and his government being replaced in the next year’s general election.
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Pro-Erdogan judge admits the heinous work of blacklisting colleagues
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Ankara Bar exposes new torture cases which the former admin hid from public
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ECtHR: Turkey has breached the Convention by detaining judges and prosecutors