İHD May-June 2022 Digest

İHD

MAY-JUNE 2022 Digest

04.05.2022: İHD issued a statement on the 85th anniversary of the Dersim Genocide calling on the authorities to establish a “truth commission.”

İHD Statement on the Dersim Genocide

06.05.2022: İHD released a statement saying that insistence on conflict in the Kurdish issue further deepened the humanitarian and economic crisis.

https://ihd.org.tr/en/ihd-insistence-on-conflict-in-the-kurdish-issue-deepens-the-humanitarian-and-economic-crisis/

13.05.2022: İHD released a new special report entitled “Emergency Decree Laws and Their Impact on Human Rights in Turkey.” Drafted by Hüsnü Öndül, former chairperson of the association, the report focuses on decree laws and how they affected human rights violations in the country.

https://ihd.org.tr/en/new-ihd-report-emergency-decree-laws-and-their-impact-on-human-rights-in-turkey/

13.05.2022: İHD released a new special report entitled “Human Rights Defenders in An Iron Cage.” Drafted by İHD’s chairperson, Öztürk Türkdoğan, the report offers a comprehensive analysis of the Anti-Terrorism Law in Turkey.

https://ihd.org.tr/en/new-ihd-report-human-rights-defenders-in-an-iron-cage/

14.05.2022: İHD and HRFT released a joint statement criticizing the Court of Cassation judgment delivered in Canan Kaftancıoğlu’s case.

https://ihd.org.tr/en/ihd-hrft-the-court-of-cassation-judgment-rendered-for-canan-kaftancioglu-cannot-be-accepted/

02.06.2022: OMCT published its new briefing note on the legacy of emergency decrees in Turkey.

https://ihd.org.tr/en/omct-briefing-emergency-decrees-and-their-impact-on-rights-and-freedoms-in-turkey/

02.06.2022: The final declaration of the Conference on the Right to Peace against Politics of Isolation, organized by İHD, Lawyers for Freedom Association and the Society and Legal Research Foundation” on 28 May 2022 in İstanbul, was published.

https://ihd.org.tr/en/peace-conference-final-declaration/

13.06.2022: OMCT published its new briefing note on the Turkish Anti-Terrorism Law and how it is weaponized against human rights defenders.

https://ihd.org.tr/en/omct-briefing-note-how-turkey-weaponizes-counter-terrorism-legislation-against-human-rights-defenders/

21.06.2022: OMCT published its new briefing note on police brutality in Turkey.

https://ihd.org.tr/en/omct-briefing-note-on-police-brutality-in-turkey/

22.06.2022: The Election Security Platform, of which İHD is a member, released a statement heavily criticizing the “Bill on the Amendments to the Press Law and Certain Laws” on the grounds that it would essentially facilitate censorship.

https://ihd.org.tr/en/the-disinformation-bill-is-pro-censorship/

25.06.2022: İHD and HRFT released a joint statement on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture appended with a rendering of cases of torture and other forms of ill-treatment in Turkey in 2021.

https://ihd.org.tr/en/ihd-hrft-a-world-without-torture-is-possible-against-all-odds/

25.06.2022: İHD and HRFT released a joint statement asking for the immediate release of human rights defenders arrested at the 900th vigil of the Saturday Mothers.

https://ihd.org.tr/en/ihd-hrft-joint-statement-immediately-release-detained-hrds-and-apologize-to-saturday-mothers/

27.06.2022: The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OBS) and İHD released a special report entitled “Drowned in Procedure, Sentenced to Fail: Administrative Harassment against Civil Society in Turkey.” The report is the third in a series of reports focusing on rights violations and CSOs in Turkey.

 

New OBS Report: Administrative Harassment against Civil Society in Turkey