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Ebru Timti
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THE family of hunger-striking jailed lawyer Ebru Timtik have issued an urgent appeal for international solidarity as fears for her health grow after 143 days without food in a Turkish prison.
They said that Ms Timtik had struggled to speak at the last meeting with her legal team and had been diagnosed with arthralgia, an inflammation of joints that can be associated with infections.
Lawyers applied for her release on medical grounds last week amid fears that Covid-19 could spread in the prison.
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