Mass arrests of Lawyers in Turkey

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A group of eight lawyers from different European Countries (Germany, Greece, Holland, Italy, Switzerland), from Egypt, and the US are visited Turkey between March 7-12 to investigate the circumstances of the recent wave of arrests of lawyers and trade unionist. The lawyers have been sent by two European lawyers organisations, The European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH) www.eldh.eu  and the European Democratic Lawyers AED-EDL http://www.aeud.org/ , by the Arab Lawyers Union (Egypt) and by the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) www.iadllaw.org.

The above mentioned lawyers organisation have taken notice of the new mass arrest of lawyers in Turkey, among them the President of CHD Selcuk Kozagaçlı, with utmost concern. For the same reason on February 11, IADL submitted a statement to the Human Rights Council to bring to its attention IADL’s grave concern over the arrest of lawyers in Turkey.

Immediately after the arrests happened, ELDH and IADL alarmed the public with their protests.

For many years CHD has been a member organisation of ELDH and also of IADL, struggling with both organisations for the defence of Human Rights. It is the duty of these organizations to give CHD all possible legal and political assistance for the exoneration of their president and their other arrested members.

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