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+...
On Friday, 3 July, a court in Turkey sentenced four human rights activists to between two and six years in prison on terrorism charges. In a joint statement, Civil Rights Defenders and several human r...
The Solidarity Network for Human Rights Defenders – Turkey, of which Civil Rights Defenders has been a member since its inception, has issued a statement regarding the growing targeting of organ...
Today marks 900 days since Turkish human rights defender Osman Kavala has been detained. To-date, there are no convictions against him, nor has there been an indictment for his latest arrest. Despite ...
“We are angry, we are frustrated” was the message from Turkey’s civil society on Tuesday night as news broke that Osman Kavala had been re-arrested on fresh charges, just hours after his long-awaited ...
Civil Rights Defenders joins a host of civil society organisations in Turkey to announce the creation of the country’s first network of human rights defenders. On Tuesday morning, the Solidarity Netwo...
According to many human rights defenders, the situation in Turkey is worse than ever. The number of detained journalists is growing at the same time as the censorship laws are becoming stricter. This ...
19 individuals charged for joining in Pride Legal harassments targeting the LGBTI+ community and rights defenders in Turkey reached new heights with the acceptance of an indictment charging 19 LGBTI+ ...
In coming days, Professor Zübeyde Füsun Üstel, will be sent to prison in Turkey. Her crime is signing a petition denouncing the Turkish government’s violation of human rights in the Kurdish-populated ...
In recent years, especially since the failed coup-attempt on 15 July 2016, the human rights situation has deteriorated significantly in the country. The pressure over civil society in Turkey has inten...
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