{"id":79554,"date":"2022-06-26T08:18:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T08:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=79554"},"modified":"2022-06-26T08:18:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T08:18:05","slug":"turkish-police-arbitrarily-arrest-activists-in-peaceful-vigil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/79554\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish police arbitrarily arrest activists in peaceful vigil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013<\/strong> Turkish Riot police dispersed on Saturday a peaceful vigil in Istanbul by human rights activists and relatives of victims of enforced disappearances, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2022\/06\/turkey-police-detain-human-rights-defenders-and-relatives-of-disappeared-people-on-saturday-mothers-people-900th-vigil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amnesty International<\/a> said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police arrested the head of the Human Rights Association, \u00d6zt\u00fcrk T\u00fcrkdo\u011fan, prominent human rights lawyer, and Eren Keskin, in addition to relatives of those forcibly disappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the 900<sup>th<\/sup> Saturday mothers\/people in Istanbul\u2019s Galatasaray Square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Saturday mothers have been taking place for 27 years and \u201chave tirelessly sought truth and justice for their loved ones who were forcibly disappeared in the 1980s and 1990s,\u201d said Julia Hall, Amnesty International\u2019s Deputy Director for Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRiot police arbitrarily detained people who were peacefully participating today\u2019s landmark Saturday Mothers\/People vigil. This is only the latest shameful example of the state authorities\u2019 intolerance of lawful, peaceful dissent,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deputy director signaled the repeated merciless crackdowns practiced by the Turkish police on Saturday mothers against those who participate in peaceful vigils, stressing that \u201cTurkish authorities have never provided a valid justification for their spiteful, arbitrary and unlawful denial of the right to exercise freedom of expression and assembly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deputy director called on the Turkish authorities to \u201cimmediately and unconditionally release all those arbitrarily detained\u201d for the mere reason of exercising their right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe four year-long unlawful, arbitrary ban on assemblies in Galatasaray Square must be lifted, Saturday Mothers\/People and others who wish to exercise their right to peaceful protest in this iconic square must be allowed to do so,\u201d the deputy director concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Reporting by Farzand Hussein<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013 Turkish Riot police dispersed on Saturday a peaceful vigil in Istanbul by human rights activists and relatives of victims of enforced disappearances, Amnesty International said. 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