Under Attack for Defending Rights: The Criminalization of Lawyers in Turkey – 12 September 2025 at 7 pm EEST – in person and streamed online

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  • Ceren Uysal (member of executive board of the Progressive Lawyers Association ÇHD and co-secretary general of ELDH) will give an overview over the politicized persecution of lawyers in Turkey.
  • Davut Arslan (lawyer and board member of the Human Rights Association İHD Istanbul Branch) will examine prison conditions in Turkey.
  • Irma van den Berg (lawyer in Amsterdam, volunteer and former chair of the board of Lawyers for Lawyers) will share her experiences with trial monitoring of persecuted lawyers in Turkey.
  • Vasilis Psomos (lawyer with Legal Centre Lesvos) will share his experience after observing hearings in Turkey and visiting detained lawyers in prison.