Case concerning allegations of police torture, ill-treatment and unlawful arrest against lawyer Murat Çelik – report
Hearing of 26 June 2026, Istanbul Observed by Louis Lemkow, ELDH Barcelona Download the report Lawyer Murat Çelik, a former member of the Executive Board of the Istanbul Bar Association and former President of the Istanbul Branch of the Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD), stated that he was subjected to police torture, ill-treatment and unlawful arrest…
Lawyer Murat Çelik case
Lawyer Murat Çelik, a former member of the Istanbul Bar Association Executive Board and one of the former presidents of ÇHD, was subjected to torture and detained with reverse handcuffing at Galatasaray Square on 8 July 2023, when he went there to attend the weekly gathering of the Saturday Mothers/People. A criminal case was subsequently initiated…