Arrest of lawyer

Türkiye

Lawyer Ebru Timtik, member of Progressive Lawyers Association (CHD), was arrested in September 2015 in front of the Austrian Consulate in Yeniköy. She was there to collect signatures for a petition in support of one of her clients whose passport was confiscated in Austria. She was arrested on charges of “making propaganda for a terrorist organization”, but was soon after released by the court. During her detention she allegedly was the subject of torture; after her release she had several bruises on her body. The CHD has issued a press release on her arrest.