IHD co-chair Öztürk Türkdoğan spoke about lawyers on death fast Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal and said that every negative outcome that may occur will be a shame not only for government but for the whole society.
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Manbij massacre classified as a war crime, perpetrators must be held accountable
The Human Rights Organization explained that the massacre committed by Turkey in Manbij city is classified as a war crime, and the perpetrators must be tried within an international court, and indicated that it is coordinating with a committee of lawyers to file cases of people who have been subjected to violations to European courts.
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Femicide in Turkey: 36 women murdered in July
Pressures and grave violations against media professionals
The authorities in Kurdistan Regional Government -Iraq, continue to arrest activists and media professionals without allowing their lawyers to meet with them, while the representative of the Metro Center for Defending the Rights of Journalists in Duhok revealed that Başûr Kurdistan suffers from a greatly reduced level of freedoms, as a post on social media leads its publisher to imprisonment.
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Citizen from Afrin reveals Turkish occupation, its mercenaries’ practices at prisons
A citizen of the people of Afrin, who fled the oppression of the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries, tells the details of what happened with him in Afrin in prisons and departments of the mercenaries the Turkish occupation backs for three years.
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Lawyers take the contact ban with Imralı to the ECtHR
The Turkish Constitutional Court has rejected the lifting of the ban on contact with Abdullah Öcalan and his three fellow prisoners on Imrali. The defence team has now taken the case to the European Court of Human Rights.
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HRW: Turkey’s police and watchmen involved in torture
“Turkish authorities should immediately investigate these credible allegations of serious abuse and hold those responsible accountable,” said deputy program director at Human Rights Watch.
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UN “concerned” by the new social media bill in Turkey
Throssell warned that the law, if adopted, would further undermine the right of people in Turkey to freedom of expression, to obtain information and to participate in public and political life.
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