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) that the lawyer of their choice that they hired first was also arrested on terrorism-related charges. LLG – TGRLSP Human Rights Watch reported that there are constraints by the Government of Turkey against the lawyers themselves, particularly those who have been involved in human rights and politically sensitive cases. Accordingly, many lawyers feel pressure when they challenge official written police reports during police interrogations where the lawyers themselves are present with their clients. Prosecuting authorities have criminalized lawyers for activities undertaken by discharging their professional duties and have associated them without evidence with the alleged crimes of their clients. Some of these prosecutions appear to have come about in reprisal for their efforts to document police abuse and other human rights violations and to protect the rights of their clients.47 The Law Society Gazette report from 2019 states that more than 1,500 lawyers have been prosecuted, with 216 receiving prison terms of up to 11 years for defending clients facing terrorism related charges. Lawyers’ privileged communications with their clients in pre-trial detention for terrorism offenses has been effectively abolished as authorities are now permitted to record and monitor all such communications. Lawyers can also be barred from acting for a client facing a terrorism investigation for up to two years if they themselves are under investigation for terrorism. Courts can also restrict individual lawyers from accessing investigation files of people in police custody on suspicion of terrorism offenses. Police use such court decisions to prevent the lawyers from meeting with detainees.48 ICJ 1,546 lawyers have been prosecuted since the coup attempt, with 274 among them convicted in first-instance courts of membership 47 Human Rights Watch, Lawyers on Trial: Abusive Prosecutions and Erosion of Fair Trial Rights in Turkey,10 April 2019. <https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/04/10/lawyers-trial/abusive-prosecutions-and-erosion-fair-trial-rights-turkey> accessed 11 February 2020. 48 The Law Society Gazette, Endangered lawyers: 216 jailed in Turkey, 25 January 2019, https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/endangered-lawyers-216-jailed-inturkey/5069029.article accessed 11 February 2020. A/HRC/45/13/Add.4 46 Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.1