Murat Çelikkan is back with us!
27/10/2017We are extremely happy to give you the good news that, after 68 days of imprisonment, our beloved co-director, rights defender …read more >
Activists from South gathered in Colombia
02/10/2017Kerem Çiftçioğlu Truth Justice Memory Center (Hafıza Merkezi), Communications and Campaign Program Organized annually by the Colombian think tank Dejusticia …read more >
Murat Çelikkan: When dissent becomes crime
21/09/2017Yazan: Krizna Gomez, Dejusticia Published in: El Espectador 20 August 2017 This weekend he was supposed to come to Colombia, …read more >
Trump and Erdogan: Too much in common
13/09/2017By Ariella Lang, Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University July 10, 2017 In President Trump’s recent …read more >
Our colleague human rights defenders should be released immediately!
06/07/2017Human Rights Defenders Nalan Erkem, İlknur Üstün, İdil Eser, Özlem Dalkıran, Günal Kurşun, Veli Acu, Şeyhmuz Özbekli, Nejat Taştan, Ali …read more >
Enforced disappearances and the Constitutional Court: An evaluation of the judgment on the Hasan Gülünay Case
07/06/2017Lawyer Melis Gebeş evaluated the Constitutional Court’s judgment dated 21 April 2016 on the case of Hasan Gülünay, who was …read more >
18 months prison sentence for Özgür Gündem defendant Çelikkan, 15 months for Üstün
16/05/2017Bianet Summary judgement of human rights defender Murat Çelikkan and Professor Beyza Üstün, who had participated in the Özgür Gündem …read more >
Hafiza Merkezi co-director Murat Celikkan’s defence in court: “Propaganda can Only be bad journalism”
In the Prosecution’s Bill of Indictment, I am being charged with “propaganda on behalf of a terrorist organization”, “encouragement to commit …read more >
We presented two new legal opinions to the Constitutional Court
18/04/2017On Thursday, 30 March 2017 we submitted two new legal opinions in the form of “amicus curiae” briefs to the …read more >
Training on gross human rights violations and application procedures
07/04/2017We organized a training entitled “Gross Human Rights Violations and Avenues of Legal Recourse” on 1 and 2 April 2017 …read more >