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Pınar Selek

Pınar Selek (born October 8, 1971) is a Turkish sociologist, feminist, and author. She is known for her work on the rights of vulnerable communities in Turkey, including women, the poor, street children, sexual minorities, and Kurdish communities, and for the ensuing political persecution. She is the author of several books published in Turkish, German, and French, and is one of the founding editors of ''Amargi'', a Turkish feminist journal. She currently resides in France where she obtained academic exile in Strasbourg then Nice under the French [https://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/fr/programme-PAUSE PAUSE program]. She later obtained a permanent assistant professor position in sociology at Université Côte d'Azur, with the [https://www.urmis.fr/pinar-selek/ Migrations and Society Research Unit]. She became a French citizen in 2017.

Selek has been prosecuted since 1998 in Turkey, in an affair which has attempted to tie her to an explosion that occurred at the Spice Bazaar, Istanbul in 1998, despite police and expert reports showing that the explosion was caused by a gas leak. Tried and acquitted of all charges on four occasions (in 2006, 2008, 2011, 2014), her most recent acquittal was amended on June 21, 2022 by the Supreme Court of Turkey which reversed the court decision and sentenced her to life in prison before a retrial. The retrial was set for March 31, 2023 then pushed back to September 29, 2023, then to June 28, 2024.

She became an "ambassador" for [https://www.prison-insider.com/en Prison Insider], an information platform on conditions of detention around the world, in 2024. Provided by Wikipedia