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BHRC Seminar | ‘Rule of law, judicial independence and attacks on the legal profession in Hong Kong, Turkey & the United States’

May 12, 2025
The Bar Human Rights Committee will be hosting a virtual seminar on Thursday 22 May 2025 (12:00-15:00 UK), spotlighting serious concerns for human rights and rule of law, protest rights / freedom of expression, and judicial independence amidst escalating attacks on judges, lawyers and protesters in Hong Kong, Turkey and most recently, the United States....
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BHRC and ARTICLE 19 to hold series of trainings for lawyers and trainee solicitors in Turkey in international human rights law and mechanisms to reinforce protections for refugee and migrant populations.

March 4, 2022
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) and ARTICLE 19 are pleased to announce that they will be hosting a second round of four free remote training sessions in the effective use and practice of international human rights law and mechanisms to reinforce protections for refugee and migrant populations in Turkey. By...
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STATEMENT: Turkey’s continuing detention of political opponents and civil society leaders, in defiance of the rule of law

November 9, 2021
On 2 November 2021 Osman Kavala, a civil society leader and human rights defender, issued a statement on the fourth anniversary of his detention, asserting that the only solace he could take from his experience was that it brought to light the injustices currently being perpetrated against civil society activists, human rights defenders, and others...
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PEN Norway Turkey Indictment Project Report Launch

June 22, 2021
On 22 June 2021, PEN Norway released its final report as part of its Turkey Indictment Project. The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) provided two legal experts, Kevin Dent QC and Aska Fujita to draft two reports on the indictments in Osman Kavala and others and Cumhuriyet, which are contained in...
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TURKEY: Urgent action letter to the UN Special Rapporteurs on the failure of Turkey to carry out a genuine investigation into the killing of Tahir Elçi

March 2, 2021
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) joins 47 international organisations in a letter to several UN Special Rapporteurs requesting urgent action ahead of the next hearing in the criminal trial of those accused of killing lawyer Tahir Elçi in 2015. Tahir Elçi was a prominent figure within the international and domestic...
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TURKEY: Ahmet Altan marks 1500 days in detention

November 9, 2020
Today, 9 November 2020, marks 1500 days in detention of one of Turkey’s most well-known writers and novellists. In November 2019, Ahmet Altan was re-arrested one week after his release pending appeal on 4 November 2019. At that stage he had in effect served over three years in pre-trial detention. In its previous observations of...

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