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Lawyers In Exile: 572 colleagues jailed, 80 sentenced in Turkey since failed coup

Lawyers In Exile: 572 colleagues jailed, 80 sentenced in Turkey since failed coup

by TurkeyPurge | Feb 3, 2018 | Today in Crackdown

At least 572 lawyers have been put in pretrial arrest while 80 of them were sentenced to varying years in prison across Turkey since the summer of 2016, a recent report said. The Arrested Lawyers Initiative released its 24-page report, “The Rights to Defense and Fair...

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