Turkey: Release Jailed Critics, Respect Election Results

Expand Supporters and relatives of human rights defender Osman Kavala and 15 others on trial for allegedly organizing the 2013 Gezi Park protests queue outside the Silivri Prison court house, Istanbul, June 24, 2019. Thousands are arbitrarily detained on terrorism charges in the vast prison complex. © 2019 Hüseyin Aldemir/Reuters (Istanbul) – The prolonged and arbitrary detention of journalists, human rights defenders, and politicians blights Turkey’s claims of being a country that respects human rights and the rule of law, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2020. In 2019,…

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