In the show Gezi Park trial, lawyer Can Atalay, member of Istanbul Bar Association and six other defendants were sentenced to 18 years in prison, while human rights defender Osman Kavala was sentenced to life imprisonment on 25 April 2022…. Read More ›
No Country for Purge Victims| Lives of the purge victims are in shambles three and half years after the end of the state of emergency.
The Arrested Lawyers Initiative published published its new report on the systematic attacks against the legal profession in Turkey.
The report reveals 474 lawyers have been sentenced to a total of 2,966 years in prison.
FIDU – Italian Federation for Human Rights / Italian Helsinki Committee pursuant to the permission given by the European Court of Human Rights prepared a legal expert opinion on the abusive and unforeseeable use of anti-terror provision, namely Art. 314 of… Read More ›
With a historic judgment, the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice concluded that urgent action requests of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances were binding and mandatory to states party to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
The Arrested Lawyers Initiative 