{{Short description|Human rights activist and documentary film maker}} thumb|upright|Peter Steudtner, 2018 '''Peter Steudtner''' (born 1971 in Berlin)<ref name="TAZ_Geiselnahme">{{cite web | url=http://www.taz.de/Neue-Repression-Erdoans/!5431440/ | title=Neue Repression Erdoğans: Geiselnahme in Istanbul | author=Ali Celikkan | work=taz.de | date=July 18, 2017| accessdate= July 19, 2017}}</ref> is a German human rights activist and documentary film maker.
On 5 July 2017 Steudtner, along with nine other human right defenders, was arrested by Turkish security forces and charged with supporting armed terrorist organisations. <ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Popp |first=Maximilian |date=2017-11-04 |title=Peter Steudtner und Ali Gharavi berichten über ihre Haft in der Türkei |language=de |work=Der Spiegel |url=https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/peter-steudtner-und-ali-gharavi-berichten-ueber-ihre-haft-in-der-tuerkei-a-1176415.html |access-date=2022-07-17 |issn=2195-1349}}</ref> Before his arrest, he was invited by several human rights organization to give a speech at a conference on Büyükada island.<ref name=":0" /> He was not permitted to receive mail whilst imprisoned in Turkey.<ref name=":0" />
Among the others arrested and facing charges of membership of terrorist organizations were Idil Eser (the head of Amnesty International Turkey), Ilknur Üstün (of the Women's Coalition), lawyer Günal Kursun and Veli Acu (both of the Human Rights Agenda Association), Özlem Dalkıran (of the Citizens' Assembly).<ref name=theguardian>{{cite news|last= Wintour|first= Patrick|title= Turkey holds six rights activists on charges of aiding terror group |url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/18/turkey-holds-six-rights-activists-on-charges-of-aiding-terror-group|accessdate= July 25, 2017|newspaper =The Guardian|date=July 18, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/06/amnesty-says-turkey-director-and-activists-detained-in-istanbul|title=Amnesty says Turkey director and activists detained in Istanbul|newspaper=The Guardian|date=July 6, 2017|accessdate=July 25, 2017}}</ref>
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Theresa May raised the question of arrests at a meeting with the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the G20 meeting in Hamburg. British Foreign Office minister Alan Duncan expressed his concern about the arrests. He said that the Turkish authorities are urged to "uphold international standards with regard to the rule of law, including the presumption of innocence."<ref name=theguardian/>
Steudtner and Ali Gharavi were both released on the 3 November 2017, while other human rights activists were sentenced on terror related charges at the same trial.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pabst |first=Volker |date=3 November 2017 |title=Türkei: Menschenrechtler zu mehrjährigen Haftstrafen verurteilt |language=de |work=Neue Zürcher Zeitung |url=https://www.nzz.ch/international/peter-steudtner-in-tuerkei-von-terrorvorwuerfen-freigesprochen-ld.1564635?reduced=true |access-date=2022-07-17}}</ref>
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