Tag Archives: Caglayan Courthouse

Hürriyet: The lawyer of the Gezi detainees, ‘Cops beat us up in the courthouse’

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Last Saturday night, the police detained 59 demonstrators who wanted to enter Gezi Park. Among the detainees only 8 of them were issued arrest warrants. In the Çağlayan courthouse, where those 8 protestors were held, it was claimed that three lawyers representing the protestors, two of which are women, were battered by the police because they wanted to take to [...] → Read the full article…

Bianet: Lawyers protest police violence

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Thousands of lawyers from bar associations in İstanbul, Ankara, Batman, Diyarbakır, Adana, Eskişehir, Bursa, Konya, Antep, Denizli, Aydın and İzmir have protested yesterday’s detention and beating of 44 lawyers in Istanbul Courthouse. Armored police officers intervened yesterday a group lawyers who were making a press statement on the steps of Istanbul Courthouse to protest the police violence in Taksim Square. Police [...] → Read the full article…

Firat News: European lawyers protest against excessive state violence

The European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights (ELDH) issued a press release protesting against excessive state violence, mass arrests and suppression of democratic rights people suffer during Gezi Park protests. ELHD said that “Yesterday, Tuesday 11 June 2013, shortly after noon, at least 47 lawyers (as far as we have been informed), were arrested and subjected to [...] → Read the full article…

Çaglayan Courthouse: “You can’t touch us!”

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“I was there in the Çağlayan Courthouse in today’s riot. What started as a simple press release, turned into something else and here are some of the incidents that happened right before my eyes: “RIOT” security guards that built a wall of flesh, looked at us from a meter’s distance and said, “If you come any closer we will knock [...] → Read the full article…