UN rights chief slams Turkey’s post-coup purge, warns Egypt over crackdown

‘The UN rights chief has criticized Turkey’s large-scale dismissal of officials and mass arrests of people in the wake of the July 15 coup attempt, while warning Egypt about consequences of its heavy-handed crackdown on dissent.
“It is highly unlikely that the suspensions and detentions will have met due process standards,” Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein told reporters in the Swiss city of Geneva on Monday.
The UN rights chief addressed the detention of Turkish media members, saying, “Journalism is not a crime in Turkey, it is an issue the government must pay deep attention to.”
The remarks came two days after Turkey’s Justice Ministry released a decree with the names of 3,975 dismissed officials, some 1,000 of whom formerly worked for the ministry and 1,000 others were employed by the army.
Some 100 pilots were among the sacked army personnel, while the names of about 500 state-employed academics were also included in the decree.’
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