Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday criticized Turkey’s detention of an environmental activist, warning it raises concerns about whether the country will uphold the rights of environmental defenders as co-host of the United Nations climate summit, COP31, scheduled for November. The statement preceded a Turkish court decision on Monday to keep 26-year-old activist Esra Işık in pretrial detention after her first hearing. HRW urged Turkish authoriti…
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