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Top European court faults Turkey over detention of 2 Kurdish politicians

By SCF

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Turkey violated the rights of prominent Kurdish politicians Gültan Kışanak and Sebahat Tuncel in their 2016 pretrial detention on terrorism-related charges, finding that prosecutors failed to establish reasonable suspicion or provide sufficient grounds to keep them behind bars. In a judgment made public on Tuesday, nearly nine […] The post Top European court faults Turkey over detention of 2 Kurdish politicians appeared first on Stockh...