The Government of Turkey continues its unjust, two-year detention of civil society leader Osman Kavala. Turkish authorities have charged Kavala and 15 others with attempting to overthrow the government or to prevent it from performing its duties based on ill-founded accusations regarding the group’s role in 2013 protests. (12) In 2017, Turkish police arrested Amnesty International Turkey’s board chair, Taner Kiliç, and its director, Idil Eser, charging them as members of a terrorist organization. The charges against Kiliç were based on the mere allegation, later found to be false, that he had downloaded a messaging application. (13) The Government of Turkey continues its unjust detention of Selhattin Demirtaş, a Kurdish politician detained with other members of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) on November 4, 2016. He was a member of parliament at the time of his arrest for allegedly carrying out terrorist propaganda by speaking in support of peace negotiations with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party. The European Court of Human Rights ruled in November 2018 that his detention had pursued the predominant ulterior purpose of stifling pluralism and limiting freedom of political debate, which was at the very core of the concept of a democratic society . (14) Fair trial rights and protections for lawyers have been restricted just as they are most critically needed given mass detentions and the wider crackdown on dissent. The Government of Turkey has targeted lawyers, with particular focus on criminal defense lawyers, prosecuting them for discharging their professional duties and associating them, without evidence, with the alleged crimes of their clients. Police have also intimidated lawyers and obstructed their work. (15) The Government of Turkey heavily restricts and censors the internet. The government has blocked over 220,000 websites, has temporarily blocked Twitter and YouTube, has blocked Wikipedia since 2017, and is now pressuring Netflix and other online streaming platforms to censor content according to rules