TURKEY: Joint report on the ÇHD fact-finding mission

Date of the report: February 2024

“Between 6 and 10 November 2023, an international delegation representing 27 law societies, bar associations, human rights groups and legal groups (…) undertook a fact-finding mission to Turkey to interview eight lawyers who have been arrested and detained in circumstances that raise a range of human rights concerns. The delegation also observed two court hearings, the first concerning the criminal proceedings against twelve lawyers who are members of the Association of Libertarian Jurists (ÖHD) and the second a review hearing for the pre-trial detention of Ms Gülhan Kaya, a prominent human rights lawyer.”

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