JOINT STATEMENT 20 November 2020 RELEASE ALL DETAINED HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS, LAWYERS AND CSO REPRESENTATIVES Today (20 November 2020), within the scope of the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office’s investigation no. 2019/63324, many rights defenders, lawyers and CSO representatives were detained in Diyarbakır and surrounding provinces in the early hours of Read more…
The panel LGBTI+ Rights in Turkey and Poland will be held online on November 18, Wednesday at 16.00 (GMT+3). You may join the live-stream in Turkish and English. Organized jointly by Hafıza Merkezi, Association for Monitoring Equal Rights and Netherlands Helsinki Committee, the panel is part of a series titled Shrinking Democratic Spaces and International Solidarity. Panel speakers are Karolina Gierdal, General Read more…
The 2nd International Discrimination Conference, organised by Equality Forum which was originally set to be held in April but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will be held online due to the pandemic conditions with different sessions on the following dates during three weekends: 24 – 25th October, 31st Read more…
The 2nd International Discrimination Conference, organised by Equality Forum which was originally set to be held in April but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will be held online due to the pandemic conditions with different sessions on the following dates during three weekends: 24 – 25th October, 31st Read more…
Organised by Equality Forum which AMER is one of the components, The 2nd International Discrimination Conference, originally set to be held in April but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will be held online due to the pandemic conditions with different sessions on the following dates during three weekends: 24 Read more…
With his work, Tahir Elçi was one of the invaluable human rights defenders and lawyers in Turkey. We call for all the circumstances surrounding this killing, which deeply hurt the human rights movement in Turkey, to be fully brought into light; and all public officials who bear responsibility -whether by their acts or out of negligence- to be prosecuted in the case; and the killing of Tahir Elçi not to end up with impunity.
The new bill of indictment issued by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office against Osman Kavala, a defender of human rights and peace, was accepted by the Istanbul 36th High Criminal Court on 8 October 2020, and the court ruled that Kavala’s pre-trial detention shall continue. Thus, a new phase Read more…
The member organisations of Solidarity Network for Human Rights Defenders have written a letter to the United Nations (UN) special mandate holders, underlining the recent increase in attacks on LGBTI+ people in Turkey. The letter demands an urgent intervention from the UN authorities. The letter has been addressed to the Read more…
JOINT PRESS STATEMENT 3 July 2020, After the Hearing, Çağlayan Courthouse, Istanbul This prosecution, which has nothing to do with the laws and should have never been opened in the first place, is concluded with another unlawful decision. The court decision based solely on trumped-up charges, all of which have Read more…
Today, at the final hearing of this prosecution which should have never been opened, the only fair judgment will be the acquittal of all 11 human rights defenders without exception.