Author Archives
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Commissioner for Human Rights of the COE urges Turkey to implement the UN Human Rights Committee’s decisions
Commissioner for Human Rights of the COE urges Turkey to implement the UN Human Rights Committee’s decisions regarding detentions based on using Bylock and having account in Bank Asya.
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New Report: Extradition to Turkey: One-way Ticket to Torture and Unfair Trial
On 1 February 2020, the Arrested Lawyers Initiative published an advanced update of its report titled ‘Extradition to Turkey: One-way Ticket to Torture and Unfair Trial’ which was published in February of 2018.
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The German Federal Constitutional Court: Turkey highly likely will not respect minimum standards deriving from international law
The German Federal Constitutional Court (GFCC) decided a lower court’s decision ordering the extradition of an individual to Turkey violated German law and Germany’s obligation deriving from international law.
The GFCC ruled that Turkey highly will not respect minimum standards deriving from international law. Therefore, an extradition decision which relied on the assurances provided by the Turkish government that the prosecution was not based on political grounds was unlawful and thus should be annulled.
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Italian Association of Criminal Lawyers – UCPI: release lawyers Saral, Hendekci and Cinkara
On Day of the Endangered Lawyer, the Italian Association of Criminal Lawyers – UCPI sent a letter to the Ministry of Justice of Turkey with respect to lawyers Esra Uymaz Saral, Ozge Elif Hendekci and Büşra Erdal Cinkara, all of whom are women lawyers who have been imprisoned, and urged Turkey to release them immediately.
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Day of Endangered Lawyer 2020
Our statement on the occasion of Day of the Endangered Lawyers. #Pakistan #DayoftheEndangeredLawyer @OBS_defenders @HRCP87 @Pbbarcouncil @CCBEinfo @ProtectLawyers @UIAdefense @JusticeDefend @IBAHRI pic.twitter.com/QyFjTyxg9q — The Arrested Lawyers (@ArrestedLawyers) January 24, 2020
