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Court rules to continue pretrial detention for AI Turkey Chair Kılıç

An İstanbul court on Wednesday decided for the continuation of the pre-trial detention of Taner Kılıç, chair of the board of Amnesty International Turkey...

Amnesty International slams ‘show trial’ of human rights activists in Turkey

Amnesty International issued a statement on their website on Wednesday harshly criticizing judicial proceedings involving 11 human rights activists in Turkey, calling it a...

AI: EU leaders must press Turkey on human rights

Iverna McGowan, director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office, said ahead of a European Council meeting on Oct. 19 and 20 which is expected...

Turkish court accepts indictment seeking 15 years for human rights defenders

The İstanbul 35th High Criminal Court has accepted an indictment drafted by the İstanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office seeking up to 15 years each for...

PACE urges Turkey to drop charges against human rights activists, release them

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Friday urged the Turkish government to drop all charges against human rights activists jailed...

Amnesty condemns heavy charges against rights activists arrested in Turkey

Amnesty International on Sunday issued a statement condemning an indictment seeking jail terms of up to 15 years on terror charges filed against 11...

AI Kirklees hosts ‘Free the Turkish Journalists’ photo exhibit

International human rights organization Amnesty International’s UK Kirklees branch on Friday opened a two-day photo exhibition titled “Free the Turkish Journalists” at Huddersfield Parish...

AI secretary-general visits Turkey director in İstanbul prison, calls for her immediate release

The secretary-general of Amnesty International, Salil Shetty, on Saturday visited the rights group's Turkey director, İdil Eser, in an İstanbul prison and called for...

Amnesty secretary-general poses outside Turkish prison where AI’s Eser is jailed

Amnesty International (AI) Secretary-General Salil Shetty posed for a picture on Tuesday outside İstanbul's Silivri Prison where AI Turkey Director İdil Eser is being...

Rights group says prison guards threatened with jail when they refuse to torture inmates

Founding President of the Turkish Human Rights Foundation (TİHV) Professor Şebnem Korur Fincancı said on Sunday that some prison guards who refused to follow...

Jailed Amnesty director says Turkey holding them hostage to threaten Germany

Director of Amnesty International (AI) Turkey Idil Eser, who has been jailed since her detention on July 5 together with nine other human rights...

İstanbul court rejects objection to arrest of human rights defenders

The İstanbul 11th Penal Court of Peace on Friday rejected an objection to the arrest of eight human rights defenders who were put in...

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