Following the legal and legitimate reaction by the people of Istanbul to the continuing pedestrianization project, the police carried out heavy attacks that cannot merely be described as “extreme/disproportionate/immoderate”.
The EMHRN and the Turkish Human Rights Association (IHD) welcome the release yesterday of 22 Turkish trade unionists and human rights defenders who have been detained ‘on terror charges’.
Commissioner Cecilia Malmström met the Turkish ambassador in Brussels to officially initial – in other words preliminarily agree on – a readmission agreement between the European Union and Turkey.
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A delegation of the EMHRN was in Ankara where it met with its member organisation IHD, the Ministry of Justice, the National Human Rights Institute, the EU Delegation and representatives of the European Parliament.
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The Iraqi and Turkish authorities should immediately re-open border crossings where more than 10,000 Syrians have been stranded for weeks and allow all those wishing to seek asylum to cross without delay, HRW said today.
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The undersigned organisations express their deepest concern regarding the decision of the court to place in detention 28 trade union members, including Osman Işçi.
The staff, board and members of PCATI are extremely concerned about the welfare of Mr. Osman Işçi and other human rights defenders recently arrested or are under threat of arrest.
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Rights of the child violated in the Evros region.Every day in the Evros region at the Greek-Turkish Border, tens of children are locked up simply because they do not hold the right documentation.
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Osman İşçi, the EMHRN (Avrupa-Akdeniz İnsan Hakları Ağı) executive member and the Human Rights Association’s International Relations former expert, was reportedly detained in Ankara Province.
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On the occasion of World Refugee Day, the EMHRN warns that refugees continue to see their rights violated by regimes both in the North and the South of the Mediterranean.
World Refugee Day – Forgotten, Exposed and Stranded: The Plight Continues Read More »
