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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
Şebnem Korur Fincancı
Selahattin Güvenç
Özlem Dalkıran
Hasan Ceylan
Yiğit Aksakoğlu
Boğaziçi Solidarity
Erol Önderoğlu
Osman Kavala
İdil Eser
Taner Kılıç
Günal Kurşun
Gençay Gürsoy
Nimet Tanrıkulu
Nurcan Kaya 
Nurcan Baysal
Mücella Yapıcı
Makum Alagöz
Ali Ekber Barmağıç
Nadire Mater
Saturday Mothers/People
Can Candan
Büyükada Case
Bülent Şık
Bilal Yıldız
Aytül Uçar
Gezi Trial
Mehmet Türkmen
Solidarity with Özgür Gündem Case
METU LGBTİ+ Solidarity
Las Tesis Activists
İsmail Temel
kemal aytaç portre
Kemal Aytaç
Kamil Kartal
Defenders of the Istanbul Convention 
Gönül Öztürkoğlu
Füsun Üstel
Eren Keskin
Diyarbakır Bar Association
Lawyers from Progressive Lawyers’ Association
Turkish Medical Association
Sevda Çelik Özbingöl
Green Gerze Platform
Başaran Aksu
Tugay Kartal
Öztürk Türkdoğan
Rafet Fahri Semizoğlu
Tahir Elçi
Zana Aksu
Yıldız İdil Şen
Green Artvin Association
Workers of the Third Airport
Şeyhmus Gökalp
Serdar Küni
Selim Ölçer
Rosa Women’s Association
Raşit Tükel
Ozan Devrim Yay
Dicle Müftüoğlu
Hakan Altınay
Yiğit Ali Ekmekçi
Can Atalay
Gönül Erden
Tayfun Kahraman
Mine Özerden
Çiğdem Mater
Sevim Çiçek
Vetha Aydın Yüksel
Fatin Kanat
Academics For Peace
Selma Atabey
Ufuk Beytekin
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