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[OPINION] Turkish gov’t distorts facts reported by UN Special Rapporteur on torture

Leighann Spencer

26/02/2018

Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, has published a report concerning the situation in Turkey with findings from his 27... Read More...

[NEWS] UN Special Rapporteur brings the human rights violations under SoE to attention

PPJ

26/02/2018

By PPJ- 26 February 2018 The UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Fionnuala Ni Aoláin, published and submitted... Read More...

[NEWS] UN Rapporteur exposes scale of torture in Turkey

PPJ

18/01/2018

PPJ- 18 January, 2018 Nils Melzer, the UN special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, has submitted a report which reveal horrific facts regarding the rig... Read More...

[NEWS] UN Human Rights Experts Urge The Turkish Gov’t to End SoE

PPJ

17/01/2018

PPJ- 17 January, 2018 UN human rights experts call on the Turkish Government not to extend the currently practiced state of emergency. After the failed coup attempt on 15 July 2016, the government has ex... Read More...

[OPINION] Strange Case of Akay: Bylock, Turkey’s Coup and Rwanda’s Genocide Trial

PPJ

31/12/2017

By EMRAH AKSU During the last four years, the erosion in the law system of Turkey has increasingly become much more apparent and catastrophic. Every occasion of arbitrary practice of law enforcement... Read More...

[NEWS] Apply what you demand for Rohingya in your own country says High Commissioner of UNHRC to Turkish Gov’t

PPJ

11/09/2017

By PPJ Zeid Al Ra'ad Al Hussein, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, delivered an opening speech at Human Rights Council 36th Session. In his speech, he emphasized that human rights violations make t... Read More...

[OPINION] UN Body Confirms Arbitrary Detentions Are Systematic In Turkey

PPJ

06/09/2017

By ABDULHAMIT BILICI As the law and democracy are suspended in Turkey, everyone, who is not subservient to Erdogan, is now faced with various ways of oppression and victimisation. Senior journalist Ahme... Read More...

[OPINION] Observations on ByLock App and Arrest of the UN Judge Sefa Akay

PPJ

30/07/2017

By EMRAH AKSU In Turkey, we encounter many unreasonable, illegal and ambiguous judicial acts in recent years as a part of autocratic drift. These judicial practices inexplicable within fundamental legal ... Read More...

UN Body calls on Turkey to immediately release unlawfully arrested police chief

PPJ

02/07/2017

The United Nations’ Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), which works under UN Human Rights Council, has called on Turkish government to immediately release police superintendent Kürşat Çevik who are arb... Read More...

Another victim of Turkey’s witch-hunt: A UN judge

PPJ

22/06/2017

On December 18, 2014, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) situated in the Hague, the Netherlands, affirmed the detention order issued by the Trial Chamber of the ICC to the former Rwan... Read More...

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