Eşber Yağmurdereli

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Designation:Dramatist, Literary writer, Poet

Gender:Male

Blind human rights activist and lawyer Eşber Yağmurdereli has spent nearly 20 years in prison on various charges related to comments about Türkiye's human rights abuses and advocacy for Kurdish rights. Most recently, he was arrested in 1997 for a speech he gave six years earlier on Kurdish issues and was released in 2001. In April 2022, he was acquitted of charges of ‘terrorist propaganda’ from 2013 and 2015. He was also issued a decision of non-prosecution in the Özgür Gündem trials. On August 14, 2023, Yağmurdereli was hospitalized following a brain hemorrhage.