LGBTI Activist Held In Pre-Trial Detention
LGBTI Activist Held In Pre-Trial Detention
- On New Year’s Eve, fashion designer and LGBTI rights activist Barbaros Şansal posted a short video message on social media in which he criticized people for celebrating the New Year at a time of large scale detention of journalists, and widespread corruption and child abuse allegations, ending it with a wish for ‘Turkey to drown in its shit.’ On 2 January, he was extradited from the territory of northern Cyprus, where he had been over the New Year period. Barbaros Şansal’s lawyer told Amnesty International that the authorities in the territory of northern Cyprus had not provided a document attesting to a formal extradition decision.
- On New Year’s Eve, fashion designer and LGBTI rights activist Barbaros Şansal posted a short video message on social media in which he criticized people for celebrating the New Year at a time of large scale detention of journalists, and widespread corruption and child abuse allegations, ending it with a wish for ‘Turkey to drown in its shit.’ On 2 January, he was extradited from the territory of northern Cyprus, where he had been over the New Year period. Barbaros Şansal’s lawyer told Amnesty International that the authorities in the territory of northern Cyprus had not provided a document attesting to a formal extradition decision.