{"id":5230,"date":"2020-07-03T09:13:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T06:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/?p=5230"},"modified":"2022-04-21T17:08:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T14:08:26","slug":"joint-statement-we-are-here-for-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/2020\/07\/03\/joint-statement-we-are-here-for-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Statement: We Are Here For Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ihop.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ihop.png 620w, https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ihop-300x75.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>WE ARE HERE FOR JUSTICE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>JOINT PRESS STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>3 July 2020, \u00c7a\u011flayan Courthouse, Istanbul<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three years ago,\nduring a routine civil society workshop in B\u00fcy\u00fckada island, human rights\ndefenders were detained by police. Human rights defenders who spent many years\ndefending human rights were targeted with baseless allegations and a smear\ncampaign on TV and newspapers. In the shadow of a climate of fear, they were imprisoned\nwithout any lawful justification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The indictment\ncontained a number of absurd allegations. These baseless allegations that were\nconsistently refuted with evidence in the hearings over the past three years\nwere repeated in the prosecutor\u2019s final opinion at the hearing on 27 November\n2019. The prosecution, which is responsible by law to ensure the fairness of trials\na and the protection of defendants\u2019 rights, have requested instead, convictions\nfor some of the defendants on the basis of disproven allegations. Prosecutors\u2019\nobligation is not to have the defendants convicted regardless, but to help\nreveal the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, at the final\nhearing of this prosecution which should have never been opened, the only fair\njudgment will be the acquittal of all 11 human rights defenders without\nexception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By taking into\nconsideration the explicit and unacceptable flaws in the prosecutor\u2019s opinion,\nwe expect the court to the acquit all human rights defenders on trial in this\ncase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amnesty International\nTurkey,<strong> Association of Lawyers for Freedom, <\/strong>Association for Monitoring\nEqual Rights, <strong>Citizens\u2019 Assembly Turkey, <\/strong>Civic Space Studies Association,\n<strong>Civil Rights Defenders, <\/strong>Human Rights Association, <strong>Human Rights Agenda\nAssociation, <\/strong>Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, <strong>Initiative for Freedom\nof Expression, <\/strong>Kaos GL, <strong>Media and Law Studies Association, <\/strong>SPoD\nLGBTI+, <strong>Punto24 Association for Independent Journalism, <\/strong>Research\nInstitute on Turkey, <strong>The Rights Initiative Association, <\/strong>Truth Justice\nMemory Center, <strong>Turkish-German Forum of Culture, <\/strong>Women&#8217;s\nCoalition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, at the final hearing of this prosecution which should have never been opened, the only fair judgment will be the acquittal of all 11 human rights defenders without exception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5232,"href":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230\/revisions\/5232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}