Turkey Detains a 2nd Amnesty International Leader

Turkey Detains a 2nd Amnesty International Leader<br />" Mr. Shetty said in a statement. that We are profoundly disturbed and outraged<br />that some of Turkey’s leading human rights defenders, including the director of Amnesty International Turkey, should have been detained so blatantly without cause,<br />By PATRICK KINGSLEYJULY 6, 2017<br />ISTANBUL — A second senior official with Amnesty International, the leading<br />human rights watchdog, has been detained in Turkey in the space of a month.<br />Idil Eser, the director of Amnesty’s Turkey office, was detained on Wednesday along with at least 10 others after<br />a raid on a digital security workshop at a hotel on Buyukada, one of the Princes Islands near Istanbul.<br />The secretary general of Amnesty International, Salil Shetty, linked the detention of Ms. Eser to the wider state of human rights in Turkey.<br />He added, "This is a grotesque abuse of power and highlights the precarious situation facing<br />human rights activists in the country." Follow Patrick Kingsley on Twitter @PatrickKingsley.<br />The detainees included seven other activists from local rights groups; two foreign trainers;<br />and the hotel owner, who was later released, Amnesty said.