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Turkey Detains European Activists Investigating Prison Conditions - Novinite.com - Sofia News Agency
Six European activists detained after probing solitary confinement in Turkish prisons face imminent deportation, with passports seized and legal access denied, rights groups report.
- On Feb 20, a lawyer told AFP that six European activists in Istanbul were detained after arriving to examine prison conditions, police said they faced expulsion.
- Arriving on Feb 18, the international delegation met the Office of People's Rights and were detained in Istanbul on Feb 19 after the meeting, their lawyer said.
- Authorities transferred the group to the migration directorate, confiscated passports and told them they were arrested ahead of expulsion, the Progressive Lawyers Association reported.
- Deutsche Welle reported a Turkish DW journalist was detained and driven to Istanbul to appear in court on Feb 20, while the PCPE condemned the arrests as arbitrary detentions of European human rights defenders.
- HHB described the visit as an observation mission into `well-type` solitary cells, which rights organisations denounce for harming detainees' mental and physical health.
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Turkey Detains European Activists Investigating Prison Conditions - Novinite.com - Sofia News Agency
Turkish authorities have taken into custody six European activists who had entered the country to investigate conditions in Turkish prisons, according to Agence France-Presse and statements from the activists’ lawyer. Naim Eminöğlu, chairman of the Istanbul branch of the Progressive Lawyers Association, said the activists were detained following a meeting with the People’s Rights Bureau (Halkın Hukuk Bürosu), a law firm known for defending polit…
Six European activists who went to Turkey to investigate the conditions of detention of political detainees were arrested in Istanbul, their lawyer for AFP said yesterday, according to Agerpres.
According to their counsel, they were arrested on Thursday after a meeting with the People's Rights Office, a law firm.
Six European activists, who claim to have come to Turkey to investigate the conditions of detention of political prisoners, were arrested in Istanbul, announced Friday to the AFP their lawyer, confirming information from their collective. ...
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