Lawyer Kozagacli arrested

Lawyer Selcuk Kozagacli has been arrested and his lawyers who objected to the verdict were battered.

Contemporary Lawyers Association (ÇHD) Chairperson Selcuk Kozagacli has been arrested after the reissue of an arrest warrant against him on the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s demand.

LAWYERS ATTACKED

Kozagacli faced the High Penal Court No.37 and was read the arrest verdict by the court committee.

His lawyers objected to the verdict, after which they were battered and removed from the room on the court’s order.

Libertarian Lawyers Platform (ÖHP) Istanbul Co-spokesperson Ilknur Alcan’s foot was crushed during the attack. As tensions run high still among the lawyers and the police, Selcuk Kozagacli was taken to the holding cells of the court house.

The Contemporary Lawyers Association say 17 of their members have been held in prisons without any advance in the cases against them for almost a year.