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• Turkish Government is following ‘divide and conquer strategy’ over Bar Associations

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 30 June 2020

  

  Updates July 6, 2020 – The Bill was passed by the Justice Commission of the Parliament and referred to the General Assembly for final deliberation and voting. What does the Bill bring? Draft law reduces leading bar associations’ authority, leads… Read More ›

• Turkish Government posed to intervene into elections of Bar Associations

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 30 June 2020

  

  Turkish Government posed to intervene into elections of Bar Associations. The Government’s purpose is to diminish the influence of the Bar Associations of Turkey’s large cities, which are sensitive about the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary, women’s rights and human rights violations. Bar Associations, such as Ankara, Diyarbakir, Sanliurfa, Antalya and Izmir, are also very sensitive to torture and enforced disappearance complaints, and have published several reports documenting such incidents, which has disturbed the Government.

• Opinions by the United Nation Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Human Rights Committee

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 24 June 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  We are sharing the WGAD’s opinions adopted regarding Turkey’s detention practices under the Emergency Regime

• Mini interviews: Mr Manuel Soares, President of the ASJP – Union Association of the Portuguese Judges

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 22 June 2020

  

  We have initiated a new project in which we will publish a series of brief interviews with prominent European lawyers, academics and executives of judges’ associations. Our first interview was with Adv. Francesco Caia, who is the Coordinator for Human… Read More ›

• Joint Report | Impunity: An Unchanging Rule in Turkey

  By The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on 19 June 2020

  

  Joint report by the Arrested Lawyers Initiative, The Italian Federation for Human Rights – Italian Helsinki Committee, Human Rights Defender e.V. named ‘Impunity: An Unchanging Rule in Turkey’.

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