Turkey's Human Rights Association discloses its 2006 report, which files 972 cases related to the violation of the right to life and 3 472 cases resulted in injuries. State of human rights detoriated in the country last year, says İHD chir Alataş
BIA News Center
28/02/2007 Tolga KORKUT BİA (Istanbul)
from www.bianet.org
This letter appeared on daily Radikal's Sunday supplement on February 18. Written by a prisoner, namely Sami Dündar who rests in one of the controversial maximum security F-type prisons, the letter accounts the daily life in seclusion and isolation.
International Initiative
Freedom for Ocalan – Peace in Kurdistan
P.O. Box 100511, D-50445 Koeln
Telephone: +49 221 130 15 59
Fax: +49 221 139 30 71
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Cologne, 1 March 2007
INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE BRIEFINGS:
After the successful demonstration in Rathenow that
brought out a large population composed of Africans
asylum seekers and migrants, other asylum seekers,
German supporters, students and pupils from the
schools of the children of Awa Marie and their
lecturers and teachers, the media made a report that
influenced the Härtefall Commission members to the
From Solidarity With Arrested Journalists Platform(TGDP)
To The Press and Public Opinion
ABOUT THE HIDDEN OBJECT OF PUNISHMENT or
ABOUT EXAMINED/ QUESTIONED SUBJECT
'Punishment makes its most concentrated effect on people who haven't yet committed it – the crime' (Michel Foucault, Surveiller et Punir Naissance de la prison – Born of Prison)
The shots that cut down the writer and activist Hrant Dink in Istanbul on 19 January ignited a firestorm throughout the country. A few days later, on 23 January, over 100,000 people poured into Istanbul’s streets and accompanied Dink’s funeral procession to the city’s central Taksim Square. Thousands more took part in demonstrations and processions in cities throughout Europe and wherever immigrant workers and others from Turkey are found. Senior state officials, including the Deputy Prime Minister, the Interior Minister, the governor of Istanbul and even the head of the country’s security forces attended the funeral. But many, indeed most of those in the streets believed strongly that Dink’s blood was on the hands of men like these.
The Kurdish artist Engin Celik is on hunger strike against his threatening deportation
We demand his immediate release from the deportation imprisonment and the acceptance of his asylum!
This is a brief report following acussations of the Potsdam Stateprosecutor and the police against Gaston Ebua in Potsdam on Tuesady 16.01 2007
Before this it is important to thank the women and men who as refugees or migrants stood up to attended this trial.
I furthermore thank very much the supporting activists from the Rote Hilfe-Berlin, ARI-Berlins, and the other independent participants have attend to observe and to solidarise with this problem. I thank others like the EA-Ermittlungsauschuss-Berlin who have solidarised in their own ways and serveral others who have send me their consciencious support.
Dubious court process against Gaston Ebua in Potsdam 16.01.2007
Gaston Ebua of The VOICE Refugee and Africa forum is accused for causing threat to the German police from Alexanderplatz-Berlin to Potsdam-Brandenburg, obstructing police from their official duty and resisting arrest.
This is following an arbitrary preventive arrests and detention( the so called entschloss Gewahrsam ) on the 17th of April 2006 in the spontaneous demonstration in Potsdam after the brutal and racist murderous attack that day on Mr Ermyas M the water engineer.
