The Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) has decided that it would not take action against the judges who defied the judgment of the Constitutional Court dated January 2018 ordering the release of writer Mehmet Altan that causing him to… Read More ›
European Court of Human Rights found on 31 May 2022 that the pretrial detention of lawyer Taner Kılıç then president of Amnesty Turkey between June 2017 and August 2018 breached his several rights envisaged in the European Convention on Human Rights
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 Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights established that Turkey’s anti-terror provision was not foreseeable.
Grand Chamber’s judgment strongly indicates that Turkey’s mass-detentions under the Art. 314 of Penal Code would be condemned by the Court.
We are sharing the WGAD’s opinions adopted regarding Turkey’s detention practices under the Emergency Regime
Adv. Francesco Caia Coordinator for Human Rights and International Relations of the CNF – Italian National Bar Association Vice President of the International Observatory of Endangered Lawyers (OIAD) The cover of this report shows the dramatic figures of the repression… Read More ›