UN puts a spotlight on Turkey’s jailing of lawyers, judges in sham cases

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm   Turkey was put on notice by the United Nations for a systematic and deliberate campaign to crack down on lawyers and judges with blatant abuse of counterterrorism laws in order to punish them for representing critics, opponents and dissidents. A recent report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council by Diego García-Sayán, … Continue reading UN puts a spotlight on Turkey’s jailing of lawyers, judges in sham cases