Over 60 French personalities urge the CPT to visit Abdullah Öcalan
Sixty-one French public personalities have written a letter to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), urging the ...
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Legal expert discusses if Council of Europe could change stance on Öcalan’s imprisonment
Abdullah Öcalan, a deeply symbolic name in contemporary Kurdish political history, has been in solitary confinement on the Turkish prison ...
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Council of Europe must urge Turkey to halt Kurdish leader Öcalan’s solitary confinement: Italian voices demand action
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment (CPT), a Council of Europe (CoE) body, ...
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Kurdish journalist released from Turkish prison after 25-day isolation: ‘Free press cannot be silenced!’
Journalist Esra Solîn Dal has been released from the Bakirko women's prison in Istanbul, Turkey after being held in solitary ...
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MEP slams Turkey’s ‘clear violation of human rights law’ over isolation of Kurdish leader
Nikolaj Willumsen, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) representing the Left Group, condemned Turkey’s unlawful and torturous policy of ...
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