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Özgür Gündem case: Prison sentence asked for 7 people

Posted on July 17, 2019July 20, 2019 By admin

Prosecutor has asked for prison sentences against Özgür Gündem’s Co-executive Editor Hüseyin Aykol, Editor in Chief Reyhan Çapan and 5 others.

Co-executive Editors of the Özgür Gündem newspaper, shut down by a Statutory Decree (KHK), and the Editor in Chief Reyhan Çapan attended the 12th hearing of the case against them in the Istanbul Heavy Penal Court No.13.

The prosecutor argued that Lütfi Yavuzaslan, Methi Kaya, Islam Tuner, Hasan Basak, Kemal Yakut and Hüseyin Aykol “openly provoked criminal activity”, “praised a crime or criminals”, and “propaganda for a terrorist organization”. Çapan was accused of “open provocation to commit crimes” and the prosecutor asked for prison sentences for of them.

The court has given lawyers time to prepare their comments on the merits of the case. The next hearing is scheduled for November 21.

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The Kurdish Center for Human Rights was established in Geneva in 2000, according to the Suisse civil law. In response to the genocide, war crimes and human rights violations occurring across the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria.

The KCHR, as a non-profit organization of social utility, was born from the need to  inform the European and Swiss people and the OHCHR on human rights violations against the Kurds via seminars and other dialogue platforms and to attend their meetings; to establish a dialogue with NGO’s, civil movements, associations, government and civil institutions.. Read More….

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