January-February 2021 Digest

İHD

January-february 2021 Digest

  14.01.2021: İHD, Turkish Medical Association, HRFT, Association of Lawyers for Freedom, and Progressive Lawyers’ Association issued a joint statement on indefinite and alternate hunger strikes in Turkish prisons. https://ihd.org.tr/en/2693-2/ 15.01.2021: OBS issued a statement on the new “Law No. 7262 on the Prevention of Financing of the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction” that seriously threatens freedom of association in Turkey. https://ihd.org.tr/en/fidh-new-law-seriously-threatens-freedom-of-association-and-must-be-repealed/   27.01.2021: İHD issued a statement on enforced disappearances. https://ihd.org.tr/en/ihd-statement-on-enforced-disappearances/   01.02.2021: İHD, OBS and Front Line Defenders issued a joint statement on the retrial of Şebnem Korur Fincancı, Erol Önderoğlu and Ahmet Nesin. https://ihd.org.tr/en/joint-statement-on-the-retrial-of-sebnem-korur-fincanci-erol-onderoglu-and-ahmet-nesin/   15.02.2021: İHD issued a statement on the death of captive soldiers and officers stating that it was deeply saddened by the incident. https://ihd.org.tr/en/ihd-statement-on-the-death-of-captive-soldiers-and-officers/   16.02.2021: İHD issued a statement underlining that journalism and human rights advocacy were not crimes and criticized the prison sentence handed down to its co-chairperson Eren Keskin. https://ihd.org.tr/en/ihd-statement-journalism-and-human-rights-advocacy-are-not-crimes/   17.02.2021: OBS issued an urgent appeal for İHD’s co-chairperson Eren Keskin who was sentenced to prison on trumped-up charges. https://ihd.org.tr/en/obs-urgent-appeal-for-eren-keskin-2/   18.02.2021: İHD issued a statement in response to Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu who targeted the association with misleading and unfounded allegations. https://ihd.org.tr/en/ihds-answer-to-interior-minister-suleyman-soylu/   23.02.2021: İHD issued an urgent appeal for Saturday Mothers who are subjected to judicial harassment. https://ihd.org.tr/en/ihd-urgent-appeal-judicial-harassment-against-the-saturday-mothers/   23.02.2021: OBS issued an urgent appeal for Saturday Mothers who are subjected to judicial harassment in Turkey. https://ihd.org.tr/en/obs-urgent-appeal-saturday-mothers/   26.02.2021: OBS issued a statement in solidarity with İHD calling on the authorities to stop stigmatization and targeting of the association. https://ihd.org.tr/en/obs-statement-stigmatization-and-targeting-of-the-ihd-must-stop/