Turkey/Morocco/Ukraine/Hungary/Germany: Political trials against lawyers and political activists in Turkey and other countries

ELDH European Association of Lawyers
for Democracy & World Human Rights

Event dates: 24.10.17 to 07.02.18 | Location: Ankara, Gümüşhane, Istanbul, Munich, Rabat, Kiev

Political trials against lawyers and political activists in Turkey and other countries

ELDH will try to send observers to the following trials

In Turkey

• 24 November 2017, Ankara: The trial against Selahattin Demirtas, co-chair of HDP

• 1 December 2017, Ankara: Continuation of the trial against Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça.
  Quoted from Hürriyet Daily News 27 November 2017:”The Ankara 19th Criminal Court held the fifth hearing in which hunger striking educators Gülmen and Semih Özakça are being tried on terror charges, with the court ruling for the continuation of Gülmen’s arrest.In the court, prosecutor demanded the release of Gülmen on the grounds that there is no risk of her escape or spoliation of evidence. The hearing was adjourned to Dec. 1 2017.Gülmen and Özakça have been on hunger strike for over 250 days, in protest at their dismissal from their posts following the July 2016 coup attempt.They were arrested in May 2017 on terror charges while they were conducting a sit-in protest in Ankara’s central Kızılay neighborhood.”
• 5 December 2017, 09h30, Istanbul:
  Beginning of the 300 mass trials against the Academics for Peace
  • The indictment (in English)
  • The list of trials until the end of the year
• 5 December 2017, 13h30, Istanbul: Continuation of the trial against 46 lawyers, who had among others alleged members of KCK as clients. The trial started on 16 July 2012.
  The report on the last hearing

• 6 December 2017, 10h30 Instanbul: Continuation of the trial against 22 lawyerswho are all leading members of the ELDH member organisation CHD.The Trial started on 24 December 2013
• 6 December 2017, Ankara: Continuation of the trial against Figen Yüksekda, co-chair of HDP. Her indictment contains the following charges:

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http://www.eldh.eu/events/event/political-trials-against-lawyers-and-political-activists-in-turkey-and-other-countries-250/

http://bianet.org/english/human-rights/192112-hearing-schedules-of-148-academics-standing-trial-for-signing-peace-declaration?bia_source=rss

http://concernedscientists.org/2017/12/peace-petition-signatories-call-for-solidarity-as-first-trials-begin/

http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/call-for-solidarity-ac-for-peace/

https://ahvalnews.com/freedoms/free-thought-trial-5-december

https://iahponline.wordpress.com/2017/11/23/call-for-solidarity-actions-for-academics-for-peace-from-turkey-enfrdetk/

https://www.evrensel.net/daily/339725/academics-demanding-peace-face-in-charge

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17539153.2017.1326559?af=R&

SAR demands respect for due process as Academics for Peace go on trial

The ‘new normal’: rising attacks on human rights defenders

https://www.turkishminute.com/2017/12/04/trial-begins-for-peace-declaration-academics-on-dec-5/

https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/12/05/turkey-academics-trial-signing-petition

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkish-academics-trial-issuing-declaration-peace-51581714

https://www.journalducameroun.com/en/turkey-opens-terror-trial-of-academics-over-peace-petition/

http://www.nydailynews.com/newswires/news/world/turkish-academics-trial-issuing-declaration-peace-article-1.3678091

http://www.dw.com/en/turkish-academic-to-be-tried-for-signing-peace-petition/a-41647581

http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/turkey-opens-terror-trial-of-academics-over-peace-petition-117120500759_1.html

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1204141/middle-east

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-opens-terror-trial-of-academics-over-peace-petition-123618

http://www.turkeytelegraph.com/world/dozens-of-turkish-teachers-face-prison-sentences-for-signing-a-manifesto-h14185.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/turkish-academics-on-trial-for-issuing-declaration-for-peace/2017/12/05/e06c9fd2-d99b-11e7-a241-0848315642d0_story.html

http://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2123034/theres-no-logic-turkey-begins-trial-academics-charged-terror

http://www.euronews.com/2017/12/05/turkish-academics-to-be-tried-in-april-over-kurdish-letter

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-peace-petition-academics-to-be-tried-in-april-123672

https://lesjours.fr/obsessions/la-bascule/ep21-proces-universitaires/ (FRANCAIS)

http://theconversation.com/nous-avons-un-devoir-de-solidarite-a-legard-des-universitaires-et-etudiants-turcs-pour-la-paix-88512?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton (FRANCAIS)

http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/prozesse-gegen-tuerkische-akademiker-das-leben-der.680.de.html?dram:article_id=402404 (DEUTSCH)

http://www.huffingtonpost.gr/entry/toerkoi-akademaikoi-epo-dioymo-o-sercan-kiyak-periyrafei_gr_5a266bc5e4b07324e8404708 (GREECE)

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Tagged: ELDH, Germany, Hungary, Morocco, Turkey, Ukraine