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• European Commission 2021 Turkey Report: Serious backsliding continued on human rights

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 19 October 2021

  

  The authorities undermined fair trial guarantees by targeting lawyers for their professional activities. Lawyers continued to be subject to increasing pressure, taken into custody, detained, exposed to legal harassment through investigations and criminal proceedings.

• Third Party Intervention by FIDU on the abusive use of Turkish anti-terror provision

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 15 October 2021

  

  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 ›

• Mexican Supreme Court of Justice: Urgent action requests of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances are binding and mandatory

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 22 August 2021

  

  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.

• Constitutional Court judgment exposes the police torture against Turkish lawyer Gürsu Avcı

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 12 August 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  The Turkish Constitutional Court established that Turkish lawyer Gürsu Avcı was tortured in a police station where he went to provide legal counsel with three suspects. (Gürsu Avcı, B. No: 2017/20159, 13/4/2021) On 19.07.2016, Mr Avcı, who was assigned by… Read More ›

• ECtHR: Arrest and pretrial detention of justices Erdal Tercan and Alparslan Altan is unlawful

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 5 July 2021

  

  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.

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