İHD July-August 2023 Digest

 

İHD

July-August 2023 Digest

  17.07.2023: İHD celebrated its 37^th year promising to keep on with the struggle for democracy and human rights. https://ihd.org.tr/en/ihd-is-37-years-old/ 22.07.2023: İHD issued a press statement underlining that the association has always stood by the relatives of the disappeared. https://ihd.org.tr/en/ihd-relatives-of-the-disappeared-are-not-alone/ 26.07.2023: İHD, Human Rights Foundation of Turkey and the Human Rights Branch of the Turkish Medical Association released a joint statement reminding the authorities to stop holding Saturday Mothers/People in closed vehicles. https://ihd.org.tr/en/joint-statement-keeping-saturday-mothers-in-closed-vehicles-violates-the-prohibition-of-torture-and-ill-treatment/ 27.07.2023: The Human Rights Joint Platform released a statement protesting the cutting down of trees in Akbelen Forest underlining the fact that such attack is an attack on human rights, the right to a healthy environment. https://ihd.org.tr/en/hrjp-attack-on-akbelen-forest-is-an-attack-on-human-rights/ 31.07.2023: İHD’s Central Prisons Committee released its annual prisons report specifying rights violations in prisons in 2022. https://ihd.org.tr/en/ihd-2022-prisons-report/ 07.08.2023: İHD released a statement of solidarity with the Saturday Mothers/People ensuring that unlawful bans and detentions of human rights defenders at peaceful assemblies could not curb their quest for truth. https://ihd.org.tr/en/ihd-statement-your-bans-and-detentions-cannot-curb-our-quest-for-truth/ 15.08.2023: İHD, Human Rights Foundation of Turkey and the Human Rights Branch of the Turkish Medical Association released a joint statement reminding once again the authorities that reverse handcuffing was a violation of the prohibition of torture and ill-treatment. https://ihd.org.tr/en/ihd-hrft-tma-reverse-handcuffing-is-a-violation-of-the-prohibition-of-torture-and-ill-treatment/