TAGS: Individuals at Risk, Urgent Action Network • Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Fair Trials, Freedom of Expression, Freedom Voices, Human Rights Defenders, Illegal and Indefinite Detention, Prisoners and People at Risk, Prisoners of Conscience • Turkey •

Good News! – Turkey: Academics Released (UA 78/16)

April 28, 2016

Turkish academics Muzaffer Kaya, Esra Mungan, Kıvanç Ersoy and Meral Camcı were released from pre-trial detention on 22 April. The prosecution against them for ‘‘making propaganda for a terrorist organisation’’ following their support to a peace appeal has stopped but they have not been acquitted.

Turkish academics Muzaffer Kaya, Esra Mungan, Kıvanç Ersoy and Meral Camcı were released from pre-trial detention on 22 April. The prosecution against them for ‘‘making propaganda for a terrorist organisation’’ following their support to a peace appeal has stopped but they have not been acquitted.

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No further action is requested of the UA network. Many thanks to all those who sent appeals.