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28 February 2025 Daily Human Rights Report
(02/261) Police Intervention to a Protest in Istanbul…
On February 26, 2025, the police intervened the press declaration for the closure of Y and S type prisons in front of Çağlayan Courthouse in Istanbul and detained Ferdi Sarıkaya. Ferdi Sarıkaya was released the same day after statement procedures at the police.
(02/262) Detained Party Executive in Trabzon…
Future Party Trabzon Provincial Chair Hasan Kamil Velioğlu is detained on February 27, 2025, on the grounds of his social media posts about Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) chair. It is also learned that Hasan Kamil Velioğlu was dismissed by Future Party Headquarters.
(02/263) Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor on Trial…
The indictment prepared by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office against Ekrem İmamoğlu, Mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, due to his statement about the expert witness in the cases he is on trial, was accepted by the Istanbul 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance on February 26, 2025. The indictment demands Ekrem İmamoğlu to be sentenced for ‘attempting to influence a judicial officer, expert or witness’. The first hearing of the case will be held on June 12, 2025.
(02/264) Bar Association Executives on Trial…
The final trial of the case against Nahit Eren, Diyarbakır Bar Association chair at the time, and Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No 2, on the charge of ‘Publicly Denigrating the Turkish Nation, the State of the Republic of Turkey, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, the Government of the Republic of Turkey and the Judicial Organs of the State’ for the statement titled ‘We Share the Pain of the Great Disaster’ published on Diyarbakır Bar Association’s website on April 24, 2021, is held on February 27, 2025. The court acquitted the Bar Association executives.
(02/265) Journalist on Trial…
The final hearing of the case against journalist Nevşin Mengü for sharing an interview she made with PYD co-chair Salih Muslim in Syria on her social media account, was held on February 27, 2025 at Istanbul Heavy Penal Court No 22. The court sentenced Nevşin Mengü to 1 year and 3 months for ‘making propaganda for an illegal organization’ and suspended the sentence.
(02/266) Attack to Cemevi in Adıyaman…
It is learned from the news coverage of February 28, 2025 that Rıza Tanrıverdi Cemevi in Adıyaman was attacked by unidentified people with pepper spray during worship services.
(02/267) Attack on a Political Party Vehicle…
On February 28, 2025, it is learned that a car of Republican People’s Party (CHP) district organization was attacked with an armed weapon in Gönen district of Balıkesir. It is reported that 1 person was detained in connection with the attack without any casualties.
(02/268) Phobic and Discriminatory Draft Law Proposal…
On February 27, 2025, it is claimed in the news coverage of February 27, 2025 that the draft bill on the amendment of the Turkish Penal Code and the Turkish Civil Code, which was prepared by which party and MPs and on which date is unclear, seeks to introduce restrictive regulations on the gender harmonization process. It is also claimed in the news reports that the draft law seeks to introduce regulations such as “Anyone who publicly encourages, praises or promotes attitudes and behaviors contrary to the biological sex at birth and public morality shall be sentenced to imprisonment from one year to three years”; “If people of the same sex perform engagement or marriage ceremonies, they shall be sentenced to imprisonment from one year and six months to four years”.
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