4/ President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime continues its crackdown despite a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) declaring detentions based on the use of ByLock illegal, as the app’s usage does not constitute a crime.
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5/ Turkish officials banned the Hizmet movement as a terrorist organization, blaming it for an alleged coup attempt in 2016. Since then, more than 700,000 individuals have been prosecuted for supposed links to the movement.
6/ Currently, at least 13,000 people remain in Turkish prisons, either in pre-trial detention or serving sentences for terrorism-related charges linked to Hizmet.
7/ The movement’s founder, Fethullah Gülen, passed away in the United States at the age of 83 on Oct. 20. This latest raid was the largest since his death.
9/ HRF calls for the immediate release of those unlawfully detained and urges the Erdogan regime to respect the Turkish people’s rights to religious freedom, freedom of expression, freedom of association, and access to justice.
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