Amnesty International has responded to the security bill just passed by Turkey’s Parliament, calling the legislation “draconian” and likely to “[facilitate] facilitates the already widespread practice of arbitrary detentions during protests and paves the way for further human rights violations including politically motivated criminal investigations and violations of the right to life.”
Read the press statement in its entirety, here.
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