TAGS: Urgent Action Network • Prisoners and People at Risk • Turkey •
Great News! Human rights defender released in Turkey!
Halil Savda, who has regularly spoken out publicly against compulsory military service, had been in prison since 24 February 2012, serving a 100 day sentence for “alienating the public from military service”. He was held hundreds of kilometres from his home, in the Doğubeyazıt district of the province of Ağrı in eastern Turkey.