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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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The disabled lawyer is kept in prison despite forensic reports
Lawyer Mehmet Ali Uçar, who is visually impaired and has haemophilia and is imprisoned in Izmir Menemen R Type Prison, is not released despite having four reports from the Turkish Forensic Medicine Institution stating that he cannot stay in prison.
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Impoverishment and mass detention of Turkey’s purge victims
Mass detentions, mass-summary confiscations, state-run discrimination practises and demonizing rhetoric of public officials and pro-government media, have left these people marginalized, and impoverished and deprived them of their socio-economic rights.
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Turkish court sentences lawyers to 146 years in another mass trial
The 10-year-long trial of twenty-two lawyers of the Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD) ended with an unjust and cruel decisions as all lawyers have been sentenced to prison time.
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Pushbacks, migration policy and returns at the core of EU support for authoritarian regimes
When Greek authorities engage in pushback, asylum seekers are mistreated, stripped, put back into the water and sent to Turkey. This is what happened to 5 Turkish citizens who told us their stories.
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Turkey further downs on the rule of law index
Turkey has never been a country “in the green” as far as the colours of the countries in the index are concerned. Its rapid sink into the bottom of the list, which consists of 140 countries, is truly conspicuous. The index paints a true picture of Turkey, a country under the one-man rule with almost no respect for fundamental rights.
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The Turkish judiciary, abuse of anti-terror laws, attacks on lawyers, transnational repression campaign
Introduction* The courts of no other country have considered more requests made by Erdogan’s Turkey for the extradition of members of the Gulen Movement than those of the UK. The Secretary of State for the Home Department has so far… Read More ›