Turkey: final verdict will pronounce next week on 11 activists charged with terrorism. Sentence or acquittal?

Back in the mid-year of 2017, 11 people were arrested and accused of 'terrorism' crimes. Police raided a hotel on an island close to Istanbul, seized their telephones and laptops and took them in a van.

Stefan Simanowitz, who is the media supervisor for Amnesty International responsible for Europe. As of late revealed in an article in Amnesty International that 11 human rights activists, including his associates Idil Eser and Taner Kılıç, were among the ones who were caught close to Istanbul in the year 2017. Idil Eser and Taner Kılıç were working as the executive and chair of Amnesty International Turkey.

After ten preliminary hearings and spending numerous months in prison, the 11 activists will, at last, face the judge as he articulates the final decision on Wednesday. If sentenced, they will face 15 years in jail.

Stefan Simanowit, for many years, worked as a freelance journalist, reporting from the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Asia for various publications. He has consistently been a campaigner and worked for governments and political parties around the globe.

The prosecution cites that the meeting in the hotel where they were arrested had been a "secret meeting to plan a Gezi-type uprising" to instigate "disarray" in the nation. In actuality, it was a human rights workshop, and it was not a secret.

However then, it is no coincidence that when human rights are threatened in a nation, the individuals who safeguard them come across ban or attacked. On occasion of more prominent restraint, the activity of human rights activists turns out to be increasingly crucial: and progressively dangerous.

The activists were aware of the risk and had perceived how standing for human rights was, in effect, progressively condemned. Furthermore, they realized that safeguarding others' rights in Turkey may, might cost them their own. In 2017, the indictment may have meant to silence them from sending a powerful message to the rest of the globe.

Taner Kılıç went through over 14 months in jail before got bail, and eight others were imprisoned for very nearly four months each.

One thing that has invigorated them is the support that they have gotten from around the globe. Over 2,000,000 individuals have joined the call for justice for the 11, including lawmakers and eminent entertainers like Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Stiller, Catherine Deneuve, and numerous performers, for example, Peter Gabriel, Angélique Kidjo, Ben Stiller, and Annie Lennox additionally bolstered.

According to the US whistleblower Edward Snowden, "When there were tough times, Amnesty stood up for me. Presently it's time for us to stand for them," The Amnesty International reported.

This coming week the world will wait for the ruling by Istanbul central court. Hoping that justice pronounces soon, quittance or sentence, we will wait and watch.