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Amnesty International Demands Release of Human Rights Activists

HeadlineJul 06, 2017

And in Turkey, Amnesty International is demanding the release of the director of its Turkish operations and seven other human rights activists, after they were detained by police Wednesday at a workshop. In a statement, Amnesty International’s secretary general, Salil Shetty, called for the release of Idil Eser and those detained with her, adding, “Eser’s incommunicado detention and that of the other human rights defenders attending a routine training event is a grotesque abuse of power and highlights the precarious situation facing human rights activists in the country.”

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