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Right Defenders at Risk

Get to know the rights defenders who were detained, prosecuted, sentenced, lost their job and targeted for their advocacy activities... Keep the volume up!

  • Academic freedom
  • Right to peace
  • Freedom of the press
  • Access to information
  • Right to work
  • Environmental rights
  • Rights of the child
  • Right to education
  • Right to truth
  • Freedom of expression
  • Human rights
  • Women rights
  • Right to the city
  • LGBTI+ rights
  • Refugee rights
  • Right to defense
  • Right to health
  • Right to access healthy food
  • Unionisation
  • Forced migration, displacement
  • Enforced disappreances
  • Haber alma hakkı
  • Hukuki yardım
  • Legal aid
  • Zorla kaybetmeler

  • Attempt to change the constitutional order
  • Intentionally causing fire on land
  • Opposition to the Military Penal Code
  • Espionage
  • Insulting the President
  • Injury
  • Non-compliance with the Law on Associations
  • Activities contary to the purpose of the association, the law, and public morals and activity contrary to the legislation
  • Realisation of the association's purpose becoming impossible
  • Degrading the state and its institutions
  • Failure to publish correction and reply in the newspaper
  • Disclosure of information in respect of a duty
  • Abuse of duty
  • Prevention of public duty
  • Insult
  • Unfair competition
  • Creating fear and panic in the public
  • Provoking the public to hatred and hostility
  • Degrading the religious values of a section of the public
  • Attempt to overthrow the government
  • Aiding the attempt to overthrow the government
  • Damage to reputation
  • Violation of the freedom to work
  • Violation of immunity of workplace
  • Non-compliance with the Law on Misdeamonors
  • Insulting a public official
  • Damaging public property
  • Hijacking or seizure of transport vehicles
  • Deprivation of liberty
  • Occupation of forest areas and use of forest
  • Establishing and managing an armed terrorist organisation
  • Membership to an armed terrorist organisation
  • No concrete accusation/reasoning available
  • Provocation to commit an offence
  • Propagandising for a terrorist organisation
  • Knowingly and willingly aiding a terrorist organisation
  • Providing financial support to a terrorist organisation
  • Printing and publishing publications of a terrorist organisation
  • Targeting individuals who took part in the fight against terrorism
  • Opposition to the Law on Meetings and Demonstrations
  • Acting contrary to the Law on Public Health
  • Obtaining and Disclosing prohibited information
  • Acting on behalf of the organisation without being a member

  • Judicial control (Travel ban)
  • Judicial control
  • Cutting off scholarships
  • Assassination
  • Audit
  • Obstructing events
  • House arrest
  • Search at home/workplace
  • Physical attack/assault
  • Police custody
  • Imprisonment
  • Targeting
  • Interim measure
  • Torture
  • Dismissal by emergency decree
  • Intervention by law enforcement officers
  • Reprimand
  • Fine
  • Passport annulment
  • Investigation (Criminal)
  • Investigation (Adminstrative)
  • Threat
  • Detention on remand-release
  • Detention on remand
  • Lengthy pre-trial detention
  • Judicial Proceedings (Criminal Case)
  • Judicial Proceedings (Suspension of Activities/Closure)
  • Judicial Proceedings (Closure)
  • Judicial Proceedings (Damages)
  • Judicial Proceedings (Determination of nonexistence)
  • Judicial Proceedings (Dismissal from duties)
  • Arbitrary intervention to the right to work
  • Violation of the right to privacy
Diyarbakır Bar Association
Can Atalay
kemal aytaç portre
Kemal Aytaç
Turkish Medical Association
Saturday Mothers/People
Defenders of the Istanbul Convention 
Dicle Müftüoğlu
Lawyers from Progressive Lawyers’ Association
Rosa Women’s Association
Aytül Uçar
Şebnem Korur Fincancı
Osman Kavala
Hakan Altınay
Tayfun Kahraman
Mine Özerden
Çiğdem Mater
Gezi Trial
Yiğit Ali Ekmekçi
Mücella Yapıcı
Solidarity with Özgür Gündem Case
Sevim Çiçek
Boğaziçi Solidarity
Nimet Tanrıkulu
Mehmet Türkmen
Tahir Elçi
Can Candan
Vetha Aydın Yüksel
Fatin Kanat
İsmail Temel
Academics For Peace
METU LGBTİ+ Solidarity
Öztürk Türkdoğan
İdil Eser
Özlem Dalkıran
Taner Kılıç
Günal Kurşun
Gönül Erden
Selma Atabey
Eren Keskin
Kamil Kartal
Ufuk Beytekin
Rafet Fahri Semizoğlu
Büyükada Case
Raşit Tükel
Erol Önderoğlu
Bilal Yıldız
Başaran Aksu
Yiğit Aksakoğlu
Serdar Küni
Green Artvin Association
Makum Alagöz
Las Tesis Activists
Selahattin Güvenç
Şeyhmus Gökalp
Selim Ölçer
Ali Ekber Barmağıç
Nurcan Kaya 
Zana Aksu
Sevda Çelik Özbingöl
Bülent Şık
Green Gerze Platform
Yıldız İdil Şen
Tugay Kartal
Gönül Öztürkoğlu
Gençay Gürsoy
Füsun Üstel
Nadire Mater
Ozan Devrim Yay
Hasan Ceylan
Nurcan Baysal
Workers of the Third Airport
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