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British woman Ella Vivier held in Turkey before Nato protests

A woman from Brighton is on hunger strike in Turkey after being detained by police ahead of protests linked to a Nato summit.

Ella Vivier, 26, a neuroscience graduate who works as a support worker with vulnerable children, travelled to Ankara before the leaders’ summit, which was attended by world leaders including Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump.

Her legal representatives in Ankara, Suhelya Oguz and Senem Doganoglu, said Vivier was detained on Sunday with three other protesters. They said all four went on hunger strike on Monday and Vivier was given “no reason or legal basis for the detention”.

The Turkish authorities have been approached for comment.

Vivier went to Ankara after calls by political groups and trade unions to oppose the summit, which started on Tuesday.

Her lawyers said: “We were only later informed by the authorities that the investigation concerns an allegation of membership of an illegal organisation.”

They said they had seen no evidence supporting the allegation and no factual basis for the accusation had been disclosed.

Vivier had not been charged with any crime, they added.

They said she was under investigation on suspicion of “initiating provocative actions during the Nato summit”.


BBC News

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