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Joint Statement: Free Nasrin Sotoudeh
Together with 25 organisations, the Arrested Lawyers Initiative has called on the Iran authorities to release lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and withdraw all charges against her, vacate any convictions and sentences imposed on her, and put an end to all acts of harassment against her.
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Opinions by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Human Rights Committee (Re: Turkey)
We are sharing the WGAD’s opinions adopted regarding Turkey’s detention practices under the Emergency Regime
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Turkish Constitutional Court upholds the impunity provisions introduced with emergency decrees
Impunity provisions enacted with Decree Law nos. 667, 668, 696 During the state of emergency rule between 2016 and 2018, the Turkish Government enacted thirty-two emergency decrees which were later approved by the Turkish Parliament and have become ordinary… Read More ›
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Amnesty International: Investigation against lawyers lacks evidence (Turkey)
Amnesty International published a report on the recent mass-arrests (11 September 2020) of lawyers in Ankara. Amnesty concluded that lawyers were detained solely for exercising the legal profession and therefore should be immediately and unconditionally released.
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Venice Commission: The 2020 amendments to the Attorneyship Law endangers the independence of legal profession in Turkey.
Venice Commission: The 2020 amendments to the Attorneyship Law endangers the independence of legal profession in Turkey
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Reports ›
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Factsheet: Turkey- the State of Emergency Dismissals and Inquiry (Appeal) Commission
31 December 2020
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Venice Commission: The 2020 amendments to the Attorneyship Law endangers the independence of legal profession in Turkey.
9 October 2020
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Report Update: Mass Prosecution of Lawyers in Turkey (2016-2020)
30 July 2020
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Abuse of the Anti-Terrorism Provision by Turkey is steadily increasing (2013-2019)
6 July 2020
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Joint Report | Impunity: An Unchanging Rule in Turkey
19 June 2020
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Factsheet on Turkey’s Criminal Justice System
15 April 2020
Unjust / Wrongful Convictions ›
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Report Update: Mass Prosecution of Lawyers in Turkey (2016-2021)
18 January 2021
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Turkish Ministry of Justice has green-lighted the prosecution of the executives of Ankara and Istanbul bar associations
16 January 2021
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Grand Chamber of the ECtHR: Turkey’s anti-terror provision is not foreseeable
22 December 2020
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New report: Lawyers without Licence
11 December 2020
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Opinions by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Human Rights Committee (Re: Turkey)
19 November 2020
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Amnesty International: Investigation against lawyers lacks evidence (Turkey)
26 October 2020
