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24 Jan, 7 tweets, 7 min read
ENDANGERED SPECIES:

Cameroon: Cross River gorilla 🦍

China: Red panda 🐼

Borneo: Orangutan 🐒

Turkey: Human rights lawyers🧟‍♀️

My @amnesty piece looking at the situation facing independent lawyers in #Turkey for today’s intn’l #DayOfTheEndangeredLawyer
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
"If lawyers lose their voice, citizens lose their breath"

According to @ArrestedLawyers, since 2016, #Turkey has prosecuted 1,600+ lawyers & detained 615

450 lawyers have been sentenced to a total of 2,786 years

Cartoons by @LatuffCartoons (& me)!
#DayoftheEndangeredLawyer
To mark #DayoftheEndangeredLawyer we're hosting a
panel of human rights in conversation with @mehvesevin

Monday, 7pm (Turkey time)

They will discuss the risks lawyers in Turkey face & look at the Büyükada & Özgür Gündem trials

To register visit us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
This was the moment that my colleague & friend , #TanerKilic, was released on bail into the arms of his wife & daughters after more than a year behind bars on absurd charges

Last July, a court in Turkey sentenced him to six years & 3 months in prison.
This was the moment that lawyer, Günal Kurşun, was released on bail after 113 days

Before he was jailed, Günal had never heard his son say his newest word: "Daddy"

In July, he & two others were sentenced to one year & thirteen months

They are appealing
Human rights lawyers are not just an 'endangered species' in Turkey

Last year, the organisation Lawyers for Lawyers campaigned in 27 countries to protect the right of lawyers to practice law, freely & without fear of persecution #DayOfTheEndangeredLawyer
lawyersforlawyers.org/en/
PANEL: Endangered Lawyers in #Turkey👇

Taner Kılıç & Günal Kurşun convicted in the #Büyükada trial

@KeskinEren1 who has been jailed before & faced attempts on her life & is now on trial on trumped-up charges of "conducting propaganda"

Chair @mehvesevin.
ahvalnews.com/turkey-lawyers…

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"If you see me – shivering & dumbed with loss – stand by me. Because grief needs a witness.”

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