Turkish police arrest more than 50 people before banned Istanbul Pride parade
by Agence France-Presse from World news | The Guardian on (#6YAED)
City's bar association says people deprived of their liberty through arbitrary, unjust, and illegal detention'
Police arrested more than 50 people in Istanbul on Sunday ahead of a banned LGBTQ+ Pride march, the city's bar association said.
Before today's Istanbul Pride march, four of our colleagues, including members of our Human Rights Centre, along with more than 50 people, were deprived of their liberty through arbitrary, unjust, and illegal detention," the Istanbul Bar's Human Rights Centre posted on X.
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