Situation during the visit A/HRC/33/51/Add.1 Measures taken/current situation Level of implementation and observations (to be completed by the WGEID) and Security Measures. These undermine the right of a suspect to legal counsel and a defense. For example, prosecutors have the power, routinely invoked, to authorize police, with post facto court approval, to restrict lawyers from meeting with clients during the first 24 hours of their police custody in anti-terror laws related investigations. Lawyers’ privileged communication with their clients in pre-trial detention has also been effectively left ineffective as authorities are permitted to record and monitor all communications between lawyers and clients in similar cases. Relatives feel pressured to stop sharing statements on the treatment of their relatives who have been in police custody or prison. This becomes more apparent by the requests of the abducted persons to their relatives to withdraw applications they made to international organisations and courts, such as the United Nations and the European Court of Human Rights (see our comment on recommendation no. 80 for more details), and not to share anything on social media about the abductions. ICJ No measures have been taken. On 12 October 2019, police forces have intervened against the 759th protest of Saturday Mothers, who have been asking the fate and whereabouts of their loved ones disappeared in custody. Human rights defenders and lawyers have been subjected to judicial harassment, including criminal prosecution, violent attacks, threats, surveillance, prolonged arbitrary detention, and ill-treatment. 88. Ensure that lawyers are not subject to criminal or any other sanctions for the mere fact of defending clients accused of terrorism-related crimes. 46 Paragraph 39 Truth Justice Memory Center - the Human Rights Joint Platform – Human Rights Watch In the aftermath of the attempted coup of 15 July 2016, targeting lawyers with criminal investigation and arbitrary detention, and associating them with their clients’ alleged crimes increased46. The Working Group remains deeply concerned about reports according to which lawyers, human rights defenders and independent journalists continue to be targeted by the Turkish For further information please see Human Rights Watch, “Lawyers on Trial: Abusive Prosecutions and Erosion of Fair Trial Rights in Turkey”, available at https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/turkey0419_web.pdf. A/HRC/45/13/Add.4 44 Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.1