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AI invites activists to urge Turkish authorities to investigate missing men’s whereabouts

Amnesty International on Tuesday issued an urgent action document calling on human rights activists and concerned people to write letters urging Turkish authorities to investigate and...

Kurdish protesters rush Amnesty London office, demand statement on Öcalan’s ‘isolation’

Some 40 Kurdish protesters forced their way into Amnesty International’s International Secretariat in London on Friday night, insisting that the NGO release a statement about ongoing prison...

Amnesty says sentences given to academics show ‘malicious attitude’ to rights defenders

Prominent rights group Amnesty International has released a statement in solidarity with Professor Şebnem Korur Fincancı and Professor Gençay Gürsoy, who were recently handed...

Amnesty International says almost 130,000 purged public workers still awaiting justice in Turkey

More than two years after being arbitrarily dismissed in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in Turkey, almost 130,000 Turkish public sector workers...

Amnesty’s Kılıç released pending trial after monthly review of his imprisonment

Amnesty International’s (AI) honorary chair in Turkey Taner Kılıç was released on Wednesday pending trial after a monthly review of his imprisonment by the...

AI calls for release of honorary chair after prosecutor fails to make case

Amnesty International (AI) has renewed its call for the immediate release and acquittal of its honorary Turkey chair, Taner Kılıç, based on a police...

Amnesty International calls for action to free Turkish rapper Ezhel

Amnesty International (AI) released an urgent call to action on Friday, asking that supporters write to Turkish Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül and ask him...

AI launches campaign protesting trial of activists on ‘trumped-up “terrorism” charges’

Stefan Simanowitz, Amnesty International’s media director for Europe, has launched a campaign on Twitter protesting the trial of AI Turkey Chair Taner Kılıç, Director...

Prosecutor demands 15 years in jail for human rights defenders

The İstanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office has drafted an indictment for 11 people including foreign human rights defenders who were detained during a workshop in...

Amnesty calls on Tillerson to push for release of its Turkey chair

Amnesty International's (AI) board of directors has written a letter to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson asking him to call for the immediate...

Amnesty launches campaign for release of AI Turkey chairman

The London-based human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) has launched a campaign for urgent action against the recent imprisonment of Taner Kılıç, a lawyer...

CoE’s Muiznieks calls on Turkey to revert to the rule of law

Nils Muiznieks, the Council of Europe's (CoE) commissioner for human rights, has issued a strong statement on the arrest of Taner Kiliç, the chair...

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