🚨 URGENT HUMAN RIGHTS ALERT ❗️❗️❗️
In Mozambique, lawyer Emre Çınar has been taken into custody on the basis of an unlawful request by Turkey. He is currently being denied access to his lawyer, and his condition and whereabouts are unknown.
@UN@EU_Commission@UN_HRC@amnesty
We are gravely concerned about the enforced disappearance of Emre Çınar, a 35-year-old Turkish lawyer and long-term lawful resident of Mozambique since 2017, who serves as the legal representative of Willow International School in Maputo.
On 30 December 2025 at approximately 15:00 local time, Mr. Çınar was taken into custody in Sommerschield, Maputo, while meeting a lawyer friend at a public café inside the park area housing the FRELIMO headquarters—a highly visible location with multiple security cameras. He was approached by several individuals claiming affiliation with Mozambican intelligence services, who communicated exclusively in Portuguese and appeared coordinated and prepared.
Despite repeated and explicit requests, they refused to present any official identification, credentials, or a valid arrest warrant. They briefly displayed a single-page document but deliberately prevented it from being read, examined, photographed, or explained, offering no legal basis or grounds for the arrest, and gave no explanation regarding any alleged offence or the authority under which they were acting.
Mr. Çınar’s mobile phone and all personal belongings were immediately confiscated, and he was told he would be taken to the Public Prosecutor’s Office. Since being forcibly removed in broad daylight, no official information has been provided regarding his exact whereabouts, legal status, the authority responsible for his custody, his physical or psychological condition, or whether any charges exist.
Family members, colleagues, and legal representatives have made urgent inquiries at the Public Prosecutor’s Office, multiple police stations, and other relevant institutions, yet no authority has acknowledged holding him, produced any detention record, or confirmed his presence in any facility. He has been completely denied access to a lawyer and all contact with his family or the outside world.
We urgently call on the Mozambican authorities, including President Daniel Chapo, the Ministry of Interior, SERNIC, and the Public Prosecutor’s Office, to immediately:
1) publicly disclose Emre Çınar’s exact whereabouts;
2) officially acknowledge legal responsibility for his custody and produce all detention records;
3) guarantee his physical integrity and safety;
4) ensure immediate and unrestricted access to legal counsel of his choice and communication with his family; and
5) fully comply with Mozambique’s constitutional guarantees and international human rights obligations, including the absolute prohibition of secret detention and enforced disappearance.
We further call on the African Union, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, international human rights organizations, diplomatic missions, media, and global civil society to intervene without delay.
@daniel_chapo24@UNHumanRights@amnesty@hrw@achpr_cadhp@fidh_en@FrontLineHRD@MaryLawlorhrds@WGEID@UN_SPExperts@AFP@ReutersAfrica@AP_Africa
🚨 URGENT: FEARS OF ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE IN MOZAMBIQUE
A Turkish lawyer Emre Çınar (35), who has lived in exile in Maputo since 2017, was detained on 30 Dec 2025 (~15:00) by officials believed to be Mozambican intelligence.
His whereabouts remain unknown, raising serious risk of enforced disappearance & unlawful extradition.
According to information provided by his family and local Mozambican reports, his phone and personal belongings were confiscated, and he was told that he would be taken to the public prosecutor’s office. However, the alarming reality:
❌ He has NOT appeared before a prosecutor.
❌ He is NOT registered at any police station.
❌ There is NO official record of his detention.
❌ His whereabouts are currently UNKNOWN.
No official explanation has been provided to his lawyers or family.
Emre has lived lawfully in Mozambique since 2017 after fleeing political pressure in Türkiye. There are grave concerns of an illegal "black site" detention or imminent unlawful extradition (refoulement) linked to Turkish political requests.
As a result of ongoing inquiries, grave concerns have emerged that this incident may be linked to politically motivated extradition requests by the Turkish authorities.
It is widely known within the international community that Türkiye has, for many years, pursued the return of individuals abroad for political reasons.
The link for local Mozambican reports, "the legal representative of Willow International School in Mozambique, Emre Çınar, was allegedly kidnapped in an operation linked to Turkish political persecution targeting critics abroad."
https://t.co/pWVkp2vI9R
📣For this reasons, we call upon:
• The United Nations (UN)
• The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
• The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
• Amnesty International
• Human Rights Watch
• The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights as well as all international human rights institutions, lawyers, journalists, and people of conscience, to urgently raise their voices.
⚠️ Any secret detention or extradition that violates the rule of law, human rights, and international conventions is unacceptable.
We demand that:
• Emre Çınar’s whereabouts be immediately disclosed,
• He be granted access to his lawyers,
• His legal and procedural safeguards be fully ensured.
Silence is the greatest enabler of such violations.
@RMDDH_Moz@CDD_Moz@LHR_SA@LRCSouthAfrica@Follow_SALC@LegalAidSA1@IntlCrimCourt@ArrestedLawyers@fidh_en@UNHumanRights@UN_SPExperts@amnesty@AmnestySARO@hrw@RSDDHCADHP@achpr_cadhp@MaryLawlorhrds@Refugees@amnestypress@AmnestyKenya@TheRWCHR@IBAHRI@silencedturkey@ForeignOfficeKE@HRF@StockholmCF@nordicmonitor@AFP@ReutersAfrica@bonifacemwangi@FrontLineHRD@AP_Africa@SAHRCommission
KHK ile kapatılan bir kurumda çalıştığı için tutuklanan 7 aylık hamile Leyla Arslan 4 Ağustos'tan beri cezaevinde.
İlk gebeliğinde gebelik zehirlenmesi geçiren Arslan, şimdi aynı riskle karşı karşıya.
@MahinurOzdemir
YasayaRağmen HamilelerHapis
Suç işleniyor: 8 aylık hamile Nazife Karakoç ile 7 aylık hamile Leyla Arslan, kanuna aykırı olarak Edirne L Tipi Cezaevi’nde tutuluyor.
@ArmanAyse
AİHMKararıVar AdilYargıYok
Suç işleniyor: 8 aylık hamile Nazife Karakoç ile 7 aylık hamile Leyla Arslan, kanuna aykırı olarak Edirne L Tipi Cezaevi’nde tutuluyor.
@ArmanAyse
AİHMKararıVar AdilYargıYok
Çocuğun üstün yararı ilkesi gereği, bakıma tam muhtaç İhsan Can gibi engelli çocukların annelerinden ayrı bırakılması kabul edilemez. Anneye ev hapsi verilebilecekken cezaevinde tutulması, çocuğun yaşam hakkını açıkça ihlal etmektedir.
@yesimsalkim
Çocuğun üstün yararı ilkesi gereği, bakıma tam muhtaç İhsan Can gibi engelli çocukların annelerinden ayrı bırakılması kabul edilemez. Anneye ev hapsi verilebilecekken cezaevinde tutulması, çocuğun yaşam hakkını açıkça ihlal etmektedir.
@yesimsalkim
Zihinsel, bedensel ve görme engelli 8 yaşındaki İhsan'ın annesi Venhar Can, 2 Kasım'dan beri Edirne'de tutuklu.
İhsan ve annesinin hayatı zaten çok zor.
Lütfen hasta çocuk ve annesini kavuşturun. Vatandaşınızı görün, duyun.
AnneTutuklu ÇocukMağdur
Zihinsel, bedensel ve görme engelli 8 yaşındaki İhsan'ın annesi Venhar Can, 2 Kasım'dan beri Edirne'de tutuklu.
İhsan ve annesinin hayatı zaten çok zor.
Lütfen hasta çocuk ve annesini kavuşturun. Vatandaşınızı görün, duyun.
AnneTutuklu ÇocukMağdur
Pırıl pırıl insanların hapiste ne işiVar
Daha ne kadar seyirci kalacaksınız?
Tutsak yüz binleri özgür bırakın ‼️
İnfazdaAdalet Sağlansın
@TBMMGenelKurulu#KHKZulmüneSon
📢 ETİKET DUYURUSU 📢
📅: 09.12.2025 | Bugün
🇹🇷: 21:00
🇪🇺: 19:00
🇺🇸: 14:00(NY)
Edirne Cezaevi bir drama daha tanıklık etti: Fiziksel ve zihinsel engelli İhsan’ın annesi Venhar Can tutuklandı.
Bu akşam 8 yaşındaki İhsan için hep birlikte adalet talep ediyoruz.
Anne Melek Tekin tutuklu olduğu için Selman'a bakmak zorunda kalan aile yakını:
"Doktorun söylediğine göre verem hastalığı çocuklarda lenf benzlerinde kendini gösteriyor. Boğazı bazen şişiyor, şu anda hafif bir şişlik var. Yarası mikrop kapmış. İlaç kullanıyor. Haftada birkaç gün doktora götürülüyor. Bazen kitle büyüyor. Bir iki kere oradan parça aldılar. Sürekli irin gibi bir sıvı akıyor, yara bazen kapanır gibi oluyor, sonra şişiyor ve irin akıyor. Annesiyle birlikte üç yıldır sürekli hastaneye gidip geliyorlardı. Şimdi Selman'a biz bakmaya çalışıyoruz ama anne-baba gibi olmaz."
SelmanHasta AnnesiTutuklu @adalet_bakanlik
Anne Melek Tekin tutuklu olduğu için Selman'a bakmak zorunda kalan aile yakını:
"Doktorun söylediğine göre verem hastalığı çocuklarda lenf benzlerinde kendini gösteriyor. Boğazı bazen şişiyor, şu anda hafif bir şişlik var. Yarası mikrop kapmış. İlaç kullanıyor. Haftada birkaç gün doktora götürülüyor. Bazen kitle büyüyor. Bir iki kere oradan parça aldılar. Sürekli irin gibi bir sıvı akıyor, yara bazen kapanır gibi oluyor, sonra şişiyor ve irin akıyor. Annesiyle birlikte üç yıldır sürekli hastaneye gidip geliyorlardı. Şimdi Selman'a biz bakmaya çalışıyoruz ama anne-baba gibi olmaz."
SelmanHasta AnnesiTutuklu @adalet_bakanlik