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Law · IstanbulFifty-three people, including three activists who have been arbitrarily detained for more than a month, are due to stand trial in Türkiye tomorrow on charges related to June’s banned Istanbul LGBTI Pride march. Ahead of the start of the trial, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Europe, Dinushika Dissanayake, said: “These prosecutions mark an alarming escalation in the criminalization of LGBTI expression and peaceful assembly i…See the Story
Türkiye: 53 Pride March participants must be acquitted and those arbitrarily detained must be released
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Taliban · AfghanistanIn a communication sent to the draftings, on the occasion of the four years of power of the Taliban regime, which came to Kabul in August 2021, the organization of defence and promotion of human rights recalls that since the regime assumed the Government, the legal framework "was completely dissolved and replaced by a basic religious system formed by the strict interpretation of Islamic law, 'Sharia'". Among the criticisms, the AI, based in Lond…See the Story
