Turkey: Free Peaceful Rights Defenders
The recent arrest of 10 human rights activists is a “hammer blow to Turkey’s besieged civil society and an ominous indicator of the direction Turkey is heading in,” the leaders of five international organizations said in an open letter to the Turkish government on Jul 13.
They urged the Turkish government to release the activists immediately and called on world leaders to “make a strong, determined and compelling case for human rights, dignity and justice.”
The letter is signed by Salil Shetty, secretary-general, Amnesty International; Ricken Patel, president, Avaaz; Kenneth Roth, executive director, Human Rights Watch; Sharan Burrow, general secretary, International Trade Union Confederation; and Robin Hodess, internal managing director, Transparency International.
The peaceful human rights defenders were detained on July 5, 2017, at a workshop on protecting the work of human rights defenders and are under investigation for “membership of an armed terrorist organization.”
Source:Human Rights Watch
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