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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.

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. 

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.

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