by TurkeyPurge | Feb 2, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
Rebecca Harms, together with other members of the European Parliament and the EP-Turkey Forum, on Thursday criticized the re-arrest of Taner Kılıç, chairman of the board of Amnesty International Turkey, by a Turkish court, calling it “a travesty of justice.” The...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 31, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Amnesty International’s Turkey chair Taner Kilic has been denied release from prison after the prosecutor in charge objected to an earlier court order to set him free. A Turkish court ordered Kilic’s conditional release during a hearing early Wednesday. While his...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 22, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish court in Izmir has ruled for the continuation of the pre-trial detention of Taner Kılıç, chair of the board of Amnesty International’s Turkey section, the Evrensel daily reported. Kılıç, a lawyer, a founding member of AI Turkey and chairman of its board of...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 11, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday called on the Turkish government for the immediate andunconditional release of 11 prominent human rights defenders, including its Turkey director İdil Eser, who has been in pretrial detention for 100 days on terrorism charges....
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 6, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Amnesty International’s (AI) local branch in UK’s Kirklees distict launched a photo exhibition in solidarity with whom it called Turkey’s silenced voices, on Sept 29. “The pews of the town Centre Church will be filled with photographs and information relating to those...
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