Ebru Timtik, sentenced to more than 13 years in prison, called for a fair trial.
His pulse stopped. A jailed Turkish lawyer, who had been on a hunger strike for 238 days, died Thursday August 27 in an Istanbul hospital, her firm, People’s Law Office, announced on Twitter.
Our lawyer Ebru Timtik, on death fast for 238 days with the demand for a fair trial, has died! pic.twitter.com/nHARODYljr
— People’s Law Office – International (@PLO_int) August 27, 2020
Earlier, her office had indicated that the doctors were trying to resuscitate her with cardiac massage.
Ebru Timtik was sentenced in 2019 to more than 13 years in prison for “belonging to a terrorist organization”. As French lawyer Martin Pradel points out on the social network, she was actually being prosecuted for her actions as a lawyer.
A lawyer died in her prison in Turkey.
She was being prosecuted for her actions as a lawyer.
The Turkish authorities, however alerted, never believed they had to reconsider their disastrous position.
In Turkey, lawyers are killed in prison. https://t.co/skxFVw3cVd
– Martin Pradel (@MartinPradel) August 27, 2020
An appeal of the March 2019 verdict was dismissed in October and another appeal was pending before Turkey’s Supreme Court. Like his colleague Aytaç Ünsal, also in detention, Ebru Timtik had gone on hunger strike to request a fair trial. The two lawyers had stated that they “would persist in their hunger strike even if it were to result in their death.”
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