Turkey’s defence and human rights lawyers are being increasingly targeted through abusive criminal investigations and unfair prosecutions while accused of the alleged crimes of their clients, wrote Stefan Simanowitz, Amnesty International’s media manager for Europe.
“The targeting of defence lawyers with criminal charges for executing their duties contravenes the UN Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers and critically undermines the right to a fair trial,’’ Simonowitz wrote.
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