(Istanbul) – A Turkish court on April 29, 2015, released from prison a lawyer facing trial for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, but he should not be facing such charges in the first place, Human Rights Watch said today.
Umut Kılıç, 24, is one of several people facing charges of defaming the president over the past few months who have been placed in pretrial detention without any good reason.
Turkey's
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of his ruling AK Party
during a meeting at the Turkish parliament in Ankara.
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