At this moment, 10 students from Boğaziçi University in Turkey are in prison for ‘shouting slogans and holding banners’ at a peaceful anti-Syrian war protest.
The Turkish courts have accused them of ‘making propaganda for a terrorist organisation’ and these young people may face up to five years in prison.
The situation in Turkey for human rights defenders is volatile. But when thousands of Amnesty supporters take action for people unfairly imprisoned, we can win their freedom.
Just last year, within months of Turkey unjustly imprisoning a group of human rights defenders, hundreds of thousands of Amnesty supporters signed petitions and emailed Turkey’s authorities in protest. And in October those people were released and once again with their families and friends.
We are in a position to work together and put enough pressure on Turkey’s authorities to get the students released too.
