The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative
Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other
shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org.
June 7, 2017

Amnesty Chair in Turkey Arrested by Police Along with Other Human Rights Lawyers
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The chair of Amnesty International in Turkey has been arrested by
police, along with 22 other human rights lawyers. Amnesty said, "The
fact that Turkey's post-coup purge has now dragged the Chair of Amnesty
International Turkey into its web is further proof of just how far it
has gone and just how arbitrary it has become. Taner Kiliç has a long
and distinguished record of defending exactly the kind of freedoms that
the Turkish authorities are now intent on trampling."


.