Turkish court detains six rights activists amid crackdown

‘A Turkish court has detained Amnesty International’s director in Turkey and five other rights activists pending trial over allegations of links to Kurdish militia and the alleged plotter of last year’s attempted coup.
On Tuesday, the Istanbul court decided to continue the detention of Amnesty’s Turkey director Idil Eser along with five other activists, including a German national identified as Peter Steudtner.
The court, however, decided to release four other activists pending the outcome of a trial, but barred them from traveling abroad, while they will also have to report regularly to the police.
The ten activists were arrested on July 5 during a police raid on a hotel on the island of Buyukada, an island south of Istanbul, where they attended a workshop on digital security and information management.’
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