Human rights

Ogün Samast, the assailant in the 2007 murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, has been put in solitary confinement over security concerns, daily Vatan reported on Sept. 1.

He had previously been serving his sentence in a three-person cell at a prison in the northwestern province of Kocaeli. 

Croatian officials marked Europe's official day of remembrance for the victims of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, visiting some of the worst killing sites and former prison camps.

The big IT companies demand to restrict authorities' access to user data. Reports Kaldata. 

The American Facebook, Google, Apple, and other IT companies have called on the US Supreme Court to seek to restrict law enforcement access to consumer privacy. That's what The Verge reported.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Istanbul deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu has prepared a report on "human rights and constitutional violations" under the state of emergency declared after the failed July 15, 2016 coup attempt. 

Australia will accept several dozen Central American refugees within the next few months, two sources familiar with the process told Reuters, the first transfers under a controversial refugee swap arrangement agreed with the United States.

The U.N. refugee agency accused Australia yesterday of reneging on an agreement to settle some vulnerable asylum seekers held in controversial offshore detention centres, but Canberra said no such agreement existed.

Several Turkish human rights associations have slammed a number of media reports on the recent detention of human rights activists for "defaming and criminalizing" the rights activists. 

Turkey is going through its worst period in terms of rights abuses since the foundation of the Human Rights Association (İHD), according to İHD head Öztürk Türkdoğan. 

Türkdoğan said İHD's annual report listed the highest number of human rights violations since its establishment on July 17, 1986. 

The United States is concerned over Turkey's actions against opposition, U.S. State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert has said. 

When asked to comment on the arrest of main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Istanbul lawmaker Enis Berberoğlu, Nauert said that "they are trying to gather information."

Diplomatic sources sought Monday to justify Greece's veto on Sunday of a statement by the European Union condemning China's human rights record at the United Nations.

The EU statement sought to criticize a crackdown on activists and dissidents under Chinese President Xi Jinping.