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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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Corrupt judges are instrumental in cracking down on legal profession
Crackdown on the judiciary and legal profession provided corrupt judges with the perfect opportunity to cover up their shady dealings. One of those judges was Alver who sent 13 local lawyers to prison under anti-terrorism laws.
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ECtHR: Turkey has breached prisoners’ rights by denying them visits and phone calls at weekends
Prisoners denied permission to receive visits from their school-age children and to make telephone calls at the weekends: violation.
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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.