content tagged with fair trial

Verdict challenged by prosecution in Progressive Lawyers Association case

Verdict challenged by prosecution in Progressive Lawyers Association case

Prosecutor said, "judgment will be appealed for correction since it includes aspects that are against the law or without due process of law." 18 lawyers were sentenced to a total of 156 years and 3 years of imprisonment.

16 November 2022

Two prisoners on hunger strike for the right to a fair trial

Two prisoners on hunger strike for the right to a fair trial

Prisoners Sibel Balaç and Gökhan Yıldırım have been on a hunger strike for their demands as part of the right to a fair trial.

27 January 2022

First International Fair Trial Day to be held in the memory of Ebru Timtik

First International Fair Trial Day to be held in the memory of Ebru Timtik

Lawyer Ebru Timtik lost her life last year after a 238-day death fast demanding a fair trial.

Lost his life on a hunger strike, Mustafa Koçak billed for food

Lost his life on a hunger strike, Mustafa Koçak billed for food

Koçak's father has said, "Those who did not even give sugar and vitamin B to my son for 10 months sent bread and food bills. My son died from hunger... from hunger!"

25 May 2021 Ayça Söylemez

Physicians from Mersin: Release Dr. Şeyhmus Gökalp

Physicians from Mersin: Release Dr. Şeyhmus Gökalp

Mersin Medical Chamber has noted that Dr. Şeyhmus Gökalp has been arrested in an unfair and unjust manner without any concrete evidence.

11 January 2021

‘I saw a news report the other day, I didn’t like it at all’

JUDGE COMMENTS ON BIANET NEWS

‘I saw a news report the other day, I didn’t like it at all’

On July 10, 2020, a request for recusation was submitted for the judge who criticized bianet’s news report in these words. It has been understood that the upper court rejected this request two days earlier, on July 8. The year of rejection is 2019.

19 October 2020 Ayça Söylemez

Censorship censored as well

Censorship censored as well

A prisoner in Şakran Prison wanted to send his drawing to bianet. “We want a fair trial” was written on the drawing. But the prison administration censored it. When the prisoner wanted to write to bianet about this censorship, it was censored as well.

1 October 2020 Ayça Söylemez

Long Term Inmates Apply For Suspension After Sledgehammer Ruling

Long Term Inmates Apply For Suspension After Sledgehammer Ruling

Hasan Polat and Sami Özbil, two inmates who have been jailed for 23 and 16 years respectively despite ECHR verdict on “lack of fair trial”, have applied for their suspension of arrest term, saying that the recent Sledgehammer ruling on retrial must set example.

Turkey's Stumbling Blocks: Freedom of Speech and Torture

EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Turkey's Stumbling Blocks: Freedom of Speech and Torture

Turkey has to pay € 16,000 in compensation to Faruk Temel, member of the People's Democracy Party, by reason of a breach of the right to freedom of expression. German national Mehmet Desde was also compensated by the ECHR related to torture allegations.

2 February 2011 Erol Önderoğlu

Principle of Fair Trial Endangered?

KCK TRIAL

Principle of Fair Trial Endangered?

On the second day of the KCK trial, the number of defendants increased by one to 152. The court decided to read out a summary of the 7,500-page indictment. Yıldırım of the Mardin Bar Association sees a violation of the right to a fair trial in the court's dismissal of the defendants' request to present their defence in Kurdish.

20 October 2010 Erhan Üstündağ

Journalist Organizations Urge for "Fair Trials" for Journalists

PRESS FREEDOM

Journalist Organizations Urge for "Fair Trials" for Journalists

Professional journalist organizations criticized the "unfair trials" regarding hundreds of cases against journalists who are detained pending trial. The organizations urged the government to acknowledge press freedom and the people's right to be informed.

19 August 2010 Berivan Tapan