Peace & Justice Team

Rengîn Ergül: Council of Europe is shirking its responsibilities instead of taking a strong stance

Rengin Ergül, lawyer and member MAF-DAD , discusses the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers’ decision on “right to hope” in Turkey Following its quarterly meeting on human rights from September 15 to 17, the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers, which had given Turkey one year to implement the “Right to Hope” in the […]

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Bar associations call for the right to hope and the right to life to be guaranteed

Sixteen bar associations stress that life sentence effectively deprives prisoners of “hope for life,” and that the “right to hope” should be regulated in law on the execution of sentences. In a joint statement issued after their meeting in Dersim, Turkey sixteen bar associations in Northern Kurdistan criticized the politicization of the judiciary, violations of

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