“Before today’s Istanbul Pride march, four of our colleagues, including members of our Human Rights Centre, along with more than 50 people, were deprived of their liberty through arbitrary, unjust, and illegal detention,“ the Istanbul Bar’s Human Rights Centre posted on X.
Once a lively affair with thousands of marchers, Istanbul Pride has been banned each year since 2015 by Turkey’s ruling conservative government.
“No gathering or march that threatens public order will be tolerated,“ he added.
According to a video posted on X by Queer Feminist Scholars, one protester chanted “We didn’t give up, we came, we believed, we are here,“ as she and a dozen others ran to avoid arrest.
The banning of Istanbul pride follows the failure of Hungary’s conservative leader Viktor Orban to prevent his country’s main pride parade from going ahead.
A estimated 200,000 people, a record, marched in the Budapest Pride parade Saturday, defying a ban by Orban’s government.
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