19 rights and professional organizations, including Ankara, Izmir and Diyarbakır Bar Associations, made a common declaration on the Gezi Park Case, calling for the immediate release of Osman Kavala and Yiğit Aksakoğlu.
The statement indicated that there is no reasonable explanation that requires the rights advocates, whose arrests have now turned into a penalty itself, to remain arrested in remand and that it is an inexplicable situation in terms of international standards of law that they are still deprived of their freedoms.
Here are the 19 organizations and Bar Associations with signatures under the statement: 27th Istanbul LGBTI+ Pride Week Committee, Ankara Bar Association, Article 19, Civil Rights Defenders, Monitoring Association for Equal Rights, Diyarbakır Bar Association, Rights Initiative Association, Rights and Justice Platform, Truth Justice Memory Center, Human Rights Association, Izmir Bar Association, Kaos GL Association, Media and Legal Studies Association, Citizenship Association, Reporters Without Borders, Social Politics, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Studies Association, P24 Independent Journalism Platform, Human Rights Foundation of Turkey and Amnesty International.
13.03.2019
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