UN court orders Turkey to release detained judge

A UN court yesterday ordered Turkey to release a judge detained in a crackdown after last year’s attempted coup so that he can resume his work on an appeals case, reports AFP.
Turkey was ordered “to cease all legal proceedings against Judge Aydin Sefa Akay and to take all necessary measures to ensure his release... no later than 14 February,” the tribunal said.
Akay was one of 41,000 people arrested in the aftermath of the failed July 15 coup bid to unseat Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
He is also part of a five-judge bench hearing the appeal of former Rwandan minister Augustin Ngirabatware, who was sentenced to three decades in jail for his role in the 1994 genocide in the African nation.

 

UN court orders Turkey to release detained judge

A UN court yesterday ordered Turkey to release a judge detained in a crackdown after last years attempted coup so that he can resume his work on an appeals case, reports AFP. Turkey was ordered to cease all legal proceedings against Judge Aydin Sefa Akay and to take all necessary measures to ensure his release... no later than 14 February, the tribunal said. Akay was one of 41,000 people arrested in the aftermath of the failed July 15 coup bid to unseat Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He is also part of a five-judge bench hearing the appeal of former Rwandan minister Augustin Ngirabatware, who was sentenced to three decades in jail for his role in the 1994 genocide in the African nation.