Türkiye: Authorities must lift blanket protest ban ahead of NATO Summit and release scores of arbitrarily detained people

Reacting to the start on Sunday of a 13-day blanket ban on protests in Ankara, and the imprisonment in pretrial detention of more than 100 people including lawyers, academics and activists ahead of the 36th NATO summit in Türkiye, Esther Major, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director Research for Europe, said: “The blanket ban on all protests […] The post Türkiye: Authorities must lift blanket protest ban ahead of NATO Summit and release scores of arbitrarily detained people appeared first on Amnesty International .