Özlem Dalkıran

Intiqam Aliyev, a human rights defender and lawyer from Azerbaijan was detained with charges of insulting the police officer at the Istanbul Ataturk Airport and beaten. Despite the efforts of the Istanbul Bar Association, Lawyers' Rights Center, OSCE and Human Rights House, he was deported.

On the second day of the training program "From the Newsroom to the Classroom", Özlem Dalkıran from the Helsinki Citizens Assembly and journalist Hilmi Hacaloğlu discussed relations between rights organisations and the media and the perception of rights journalism.

69 countries exercise capital punishment. In 2005, more than 2 thousand people were executed. Each one of those murdered will be noted as a shame in human history. We witnessed the last one today.