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.
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https://ihd.org.tr/en/fidh-new-law-seriously-threatens-freedom-of-association-and-must-be-repealed/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.
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/