Overview – The mandate of frontex
Frontexit is publishing today an overview of the information it has collected about the Agency since the campaign’s launch in March 2013.
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Turkey
Doubly Vulnerable: The World’s Refugees are Fleeing Persecution Only to See their Rights Trampled
On World Refugee Day, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network expresses its grave concern over the continued violations of the rights of refugees in the Euro-Mediterranean region.
Freedom of assembly Faces dangerous relapse in Egypt, Turkey, and Algeria
The CIHRS, in conjunction with the EMHRN, the OMCT, and the FIDH, organized a special event on the right to peaceful assembly in the Euro-Mediterranean region.
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May Day: Threats to the Right of Peaceful Assembly in Turkey
The EMHRN is extremely concerned that the announcement of the Turkish Prime Minister banning demonstrations in Taksim Square and the Kadıköy district in Istanbul might set the scene for fresh clashes.
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Turkey: EMHRN Executive Committee Member and 71 Human Rights Defenders To face Turkish Heavy Penal Court for fourth hearing
The EMHRN’s Executive Committee Member Osman İşçi, together with 71 other union members, face their fourth hearing before the 13th Heavy Penal Court of Ankara, on 5 March 2014.
European Parliament: Do not vote in favour of an EU-Turkey Readmission Agreement!
The EMHRN and Migreurop call upon the European Parliament to vote against the Readmission agreement until the full respect of rights of migrants and refugees can be guaranteed at all stages of the procedure.
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Mission Report on the protest movement in Turkey and its repression
The ‘Gezi Park’ events have proven to be highly significant for millions of people throughout Turkey, as they signal a newly gained awareness of the different forms that political participation can take.
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Turkish Prime Minister’s visit to Brussels: Peaceful protesters are NO criminals!
Turkish Prime Minister is due in Brussels to address Turkey’s accession talks with the EU. The EMHRN seizes the opportunity to call on the Turkish authorities to stop criminalising peaceful protest in Turkey.
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Turkey: Four years on, Muharrem Erbey still in pre-trial detention
We remain gravely concerned about the prominent human rights lawyer’s continued arbitrary detention and the continuous harassment targeting human rights defenders in the country.
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EMHRN Report on the ‘Gezi Park’ protest movement in Turkey and its repression
Turkish authorities have committed grave human rights violations on a massive scale against the freedom of peaceful assembly and peaceful demonstration in an attempt to crush the protests at Gezi park.
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