A really strange case has popped up in Athens, not immediately related to the demonstrations in Turkey but it could add to the tension: A Turkish activist, Bulut Yayla, was reportedly abducted from Solonos Street in Exarchia on Thursday 30 May 2013 and two days later he was traced in Istanbul’s antiterrorism department, where he was being held for questioning. Read the rest of this entry »
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Controversy over alleged abduction of Turkish activist from Athens
June 4, 2013Posted in human rights | Leave a Comment »
Tags: abduction, asylum seeker, Athens, Bulut Yayla, Greece, Hellenic Police, human rights, Istanbul, Police, political asylum, refugees, Syriza, Turkey, UNHCR
Anti-kidnap alarm in form of bracelet for human rights defenders launched in Stockholm
April 7, 2013On 5 April 2013 Civil Rights Defenders announced a potentially life-saving gizmo which is a personal alarm to alert in the case of kidnapping of Human Rights Defenders. The slick promotional video clip above makes cleat what it intends to do. Civil Rights Defenders has dubbed it the Natalia Project (named after Natalia Estemirova, a leading, human rights defender in the North Caucasus, who was brutally kidnapped and murdered). The bracelet uses GPS and social media to inform of a kidnapping within seconds.
The bracelet uses a mobile signal to notify of an attack and issues a real-time GPS location of the victim directly Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: abduction, bracelet, Civil and political rights, civil rights activists, Civil Rights Defenders, gizmo, Global Positioning System, GPS, human rights, Human rights defender, Human Rights Defenders, kidnapping, Natalia project, Natalya Estemirova, protection, social media, Stockholm, You Tube
Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards 