by TurkeyPurge | Apr 10, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
Turkey has been arbitrarily jailing hundreds of lawyers and putting them on trial in the aftermath of the country’s failed military coup in July 2016, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The move is part of the Turkish authorities’ major assault on the...
by TurkeyPurge | May 20, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Thirteen lawyers in Turkey’s Samsun prison were sentenced to varying lengths of prison sentence on Thursday. A total of 24 lawyers, under pre-trial detention for 21 months over their ties tohe Gulen movement, appeared before a Samsun court for their final hearing,...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 28, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The Turkish government has prosecuted 1,539 lawyers, arrested 580 and sentenced 103 lawyers to long prison terms since the July 15, 2016 failed coup, according to a report released by The Arrested Lawyers Initiative on Tuesday. The report, titled “Incarceration of...
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 26, 2018 | Int'l Reactions, Torture
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) has said that it is concerned with the reported allegations of torture and mistreatment against detained lawyers in Turkey. In a written statement to mark the 2018 Day of the Endangered Lawyer on Jan...
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