Police Raid People’s Law Bureau

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İstanbul Security Directorate Anti-Terror Bureau teams raided building of People’s Law Bureau in Çağlayan, İstanbul at around 3:30 p.m. today (December 18).

The Progressive Lawyers’ Association stated that the bureau was searched, and lawyer Yaprak Türkmen and her clients Ebru Yeşilırmak and Güneş Seferoğlu who were in the office were detained.

Associations were closed, 19 lawyers from ÇHD and EHB were arrested

Libertarian Lawyers’ Association (ÖHD) and Progressive Legists’ Union (ÇHD) were closed through a statutory decree under the State of Emergency.

14 lawyers from ÇHD and People’s Law Bureau were arrested one month before the trial of Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, whom they were representing.

Ahmet Mandacı was arrested 10 days later. Besides, an intern lawyer is also arrested.

On October 25, lawyers Özlem Gümüştaş and Sezin Uçar from the Law Bureau of the Oppressed (EHB) were arrested ahead of the Suruç trial they were observing.

ÇHD Chair Selçuk Kozağaçlı, who is one of the Soma trial lawyers, was arrested on November 13. (AS/TK)