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• Bar Associations of Ankara and Diyarbakir are under investigation for their statements denouncing Turkey’s top mufti

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 28 April 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an ex officio investigation against the Ankara Bar Association because of its statement denouncing Turkey’s top mufti Ali Erbaş who, during his Friday sermon on April 24, alleged that LGBT people were the source for evil and epidemic.

• Let’s not forget Turkey’s political prisoners in the face of COVID19 threat

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 27 April 2020

  

  Law no. 7242’s amendments worsen already existing injustice in Turkey’s criminal justice system. The notorious mob leader, Alaattin Cakici, was released as soon as President Erdogan approved the amendments, while the award winning author, Ahmet Altan, hundreds of lawyers and journalists, remain in prison. Considering that, only in Izmir (Buca) Prison, 65 inmates tested COVID19, this danger is not remote, imagined or simply feared but actual and imminent. Therefore, we must continue to advocate on their behalf to show they are not forsaken.

• Factsheet on Turkey’s Criminal Justice System

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 15 April 2020

  

  We, in seven chapters, have summarized the political control over the Turkish Constitutional Court, the insecurity of the tenure of judges, the ineffectiveness of decisions to release, the ineffectiveness of the decisions of the Turkish Constitutional Court, international courts and tribunals, and political interference in the judicial process.

• Statement on the Lawyers’ Day in Turkey (April 5, 2020)

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 4 April 2020

  

  5th April is the Lawyers’ Day in Turkey, the country in which lawyers have been exposed to a relentless purge. Our latest report has revealed that since the attempted coup of 2016, more than 1,500 lawyers have been prosecuted, 605… Read More ›

• Report update: Mass Prosecution of Lawyers in Turkey (2016-2020)

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 1 April 2020

  

  According to report, since 2016’s coup attempt, there has been a relentless campaign of arrests which has targeted fellow lawyers across the country. As of February 2020, more than 1500 lawyers have been prosecuted and 605 lawyers arrested (remanded to pretrial detention). So far, 345 lawyers have been sentenced to 2158 years in prison on the grounds of membership of an armed terrorism organization or of spreading terrorist propaganda.

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