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Amnesty Int'l chief complains after not being allowed to visit jailed Turkish colleague İdil Eser
Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty on Sept. 6 was not permitted to visit the organization's Turkey director İdil Eser, who was jailed on "terrorism" charges two months ago.
During his visit to Turkey, Shetty applied for authorization to visit to Eser in Istanbul's Silivri Prison but he was not received at the prosecutor's office at the prison.
Ex-SYRIZA spokesman heading Greece section of Amnesty International
The former spokesman of ruling SYRIZA Gavriil Sakellaridis has been appointed as the new director of rights watchdog Amnesty International's Greece section.
The 37-year-old economist, who also ran for Athens mayor in 2014, will be filling a post that has been empty for about three months following the resignation of AI Greece's former director, Heracles-Spyridon Aktypis.
Two human rights activists arrested shortly after being released in Turkey
Two human rights activists have been arrested in Istanbul a short while after being released from detention.
Nalan Erkem and İlknur Üstün, who were previously detained and later released on condition of judicial control, were arrested on July 22.
Berlin's Turkey stance 'understandable', EU commissioner Hahn says
Germany's tough stance on fraying relations with Turkey is "understandable," not least given Ankara's detention of human rights activists including German nationals, EU Commissioner for Enlargement Johannes Hahn said in an interview published July 22.
Detention warrant issued for four rights activists previously released in Istanbul
An Istanbul court on July 21 issued a detention warrant for four human rights activists who had previously been released on probation after having been accused of aiding a terror group.
The warrants were issued for Nalan Erkem, Şeyhmus Özbekli, Nejat Taştan and İlknur Üstün following an appeal to their release by the Istanbul Public Prosecutor's Office.
US calls for release of rights activists arrested in Istanbul
The U.S. has called on Turkey to release six human rights activists, including Amnesty International's Turkey director, who were arrested for aiding a terror group on July 17.
Turkish court arrests six human rights activists on terror charges
A Turkish court on July 18 ruled for the arrest of six human rights activists including Amnesty International's Turkey director for aiding a terror group.
Amnesty's Turkey director İdil Eser was detained on July 5 along with seven other activists and two foreign trainers during a digital security and information management workshop in Istanbul's Büyükada island.
Turkey court rules to arrest six human rights activists
An Istanbul court on July 18 ordered that six human rights activists including Amnesty International's Turkey director be arrested for aiding a terror group.
Turkey director İdil Eser was detained on July 5 along with seven other activists and two foreign trainers during a digital security and information management workshop on Büyükada, an island south of Istanbul.
Turkey's detention of human rights activists aims to create intimidation, Amnesty International says
The detention of 10 human rights defenders on July 5 in Turkey is a general message of intimidation given by the government to human rights organizations, Amnesty International's Turkey researcher Andrew Gardner told Deutsche Welle (DW) Turkish in an interview on July 13.
Turkey extends detention of activists by up to a further seven days: Amnesty International
Turkey has extended for up to a week the detention of the country director of Amnesty International and nine other people held in a police raid, the rights group said on July 11.