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By Peace in Kurdistan: As part of Peace in Kurdistan’s continuing monitoring of the ongoing KCK Trials in Turkey, solicitor Tony Fisher and barrister Melanie Gingell last week travelled to Istanbul where they observed the latest hearing of a mass trial of 46 Kurdish lawyers. Tony Fisher, a member of the Law Society’s Human Rights…
Peace in Kurdistan press release: A successful meeting was held on Tuesday 27 November in Portcullis House, Westminster, hosted by Hywel Williams MP and attended by Mary Glindon MP, Pat Doherty MP, and Lord Rea. A considerable number of MPs also sent messages of support. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet…
By Peace in Kurdistan Campaign: The following statement was issued, at a press conference on 7 November, by a coalition of international lawyers who observed this week’s KCK trial of lawyers at Silivri, Istanbul. Peace in Kurdistan campaign coordinated a delegation from the UK to observe the hearing. Margaret Owen, human rights lawyer, has been…
KT News: “If lawyers can’t do their job for fear of arrest, that’s a country with no democracy or rule of law and a pariah among the nations of the world”. Human rights barrister Margaret Owen OBE last night addressed a well-attended London meeting of British lawyers and others opposed to Turkey’s mass political show…
By Ayça SÖYLEMEZ, bianet.org: Demands to be allowed to plead in Kurdish marked the first hearing of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) trial of 44 journalists on Monday. Chief Justice Ali Alçık also filed a complaint against the court audience during the second hearing on Tuesday and refused to enter the defense lawyers’ pleas into the…
By Peace in Kurdistan Campaign: On 16 – 19 July 2012, thirty-six Kurdish lawyers, representatives of imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, were tried at Istanbul High Criminal Court. They were arrested in November 2011 and charged under the Anti-Terror Act of ‘being a member of an illegal organisation’ and ‘passing orders of Abdullah Ocalan’. Margaret…
By Tony Simpson & Patrick Deboosere: First published by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation A political purge is under way in Turkey. Since 2009, thousands of activists from the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) have been arrested in police raids and interned in extended pre-trial detention. Following elections in June 2011, the BDP currently has 36…
By bianet: The Istanbul 15th Court for Serious Crimes ruled to release 16 suspects, including eminent academic Prof. Büşra Ersanlı, during the eighth hearing of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) trial. The court consequently released arrested student Büşra Beste Önder, Özgür Gündem editor Kazım Şeker, Zekiye Ayık, Kemal Karagöz, Can Şahçelik, Erdoğan Baysan, Medeni Demirkapu, Cüneyt Özil, Birgül Arvaz, Suna…
