Human Rights Defenders Released Under Judicial Control Detained!
6 of the 10 human rights defenders who had gathered on Büyükada island for a regular working meeting and arrested on a tip-off in the morning of 5 July 2017 (Veli Acu, Günal Kurşun, İdil Eser, Özlem Dalkıran, Ali Gharavi and Peter Steudtner) were placed under detention on remand, while 4 of them (Nalan Erkem, İlknur Üstün, Nejat Taştan and Şeyhmus Özbekli) were released subject to judicial control.