CoE Commissioner calls on Turkey to restore judicial independence and stop targeting human rights defenders

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Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, in a report published on Wednesday, calls on the Turkish authorities to restore judicial independence and stop the practice of targeting human rights defenders, lawyers and journalists and silencing them by using administrative and judicial actions. According to a press release, the report is based on the Commissioner’s visit to Turkey carried out in July 2019. The Commissioner considers that the measures that the authorities took in the aftermath of the state of …

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