The Arrested Lawyers Initiative

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JOINT STATEMENT ON THE ARREST OF 48 LAWYERS AND 7 INTERN LAWYERS IN ANKARA, TURKEY (16.9.2020)

By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 16 September 2020 • ( 1 )

22 NGOs and Bar Associations across the World condemned the ongoing mass-arrest campaigns against Turkish lawyers.
Open Letter to Mr Spano, President of European Court of Human Rights (03.09.2020)

By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 7 September 2020
Report Update: Mass Prosecution of Lawyers in Turkey (2016-2020)

By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 30 July 2020

The Arrested Lawyers Initiative published the update of its report named ‘Mass Prosecution of Lawyers in Turkey‘ of which previous version was published together with the Italian National Bar Council (Il Consiglio Nazionale Forense) in English and Italian on the occasion of Lawyers’… Read More ›
Abuse of the Anti-Terrorism Provision by Turkey is steadily increasing (2013-2019)

By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 6 July 2020 • ( 22 )

The statistics highlight that Turkish public prosecutors have filed more than 392,000 charges under Article 314 of the Turkish Penal Code within the last seven-years. What is worse, between 2016 and 2019 more than 220,000 individuals have been sentenced for membership of an armed terrorist organisation.
Turkey jails Amnesty executives and rights activists in ‘terrorism’ case

By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 3 July 2020

Istanbul Heavy Penal Court has sentenced Taner Kılıç, former chair of Amnesty Turkey, to 6 years and 3 months under Article 314 § 2 of Turkish Penal Code which stipulates the membership of an armed terrorist organisation. İdil Eser former director of Amnesty Turkey, Özlem Dalkıran of Citizens’ Assembly and Günal Kurşun of the Human Rights Agenda Association were all convicted for 25 months for assisting a terrorist organisation.