Global outrage grows over Turkish student’s detention ahead of Monday trial

ISTANBUL: International condemnation of Turkish student Cihan Erdal’s detention is growing ahead of his trial on Monday.

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions accepted a petition from the doctoral student as “urgent” and requested an explanation from Ankara on the student’s controversial seven-month detention.

Erdal, 32, was a student at Carleton University in Canada and also a rights activist known to be a “person of peace and non-violence.”