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RWB: Call for release of two women
journalists with pro-Kurdish news agency in Turkey
10.5.2006
Reporters Without Borders May.10.2006
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Reporters Without Borders today called
for the provisional release of two women reporters
with the pro-Kurdish news agency DIHA pending the
outcome of their trial, which began yesterday. Evrim
Dengiz and Nesrin Yazar face life imprisonment on
charges of “jeopardising the unity of the state and
territorial integrity.”
“They have not committed any violent crime and there
are no grounds for their being kept in preventive
custody,” the press freedom organisations said. “We
also call on the prosecutor to reconsider the
extremely severe sentences he has requested.”
Arrested by anti-terrorist police on 15 February,
Dengiz and Yazar were transferred two weeks ago to a
prison in the southern city of Adana. The court
rejected their request to be released.
Their lawyer, Bedri Kuran, who has had no access to
their files because the case has been classified as
secret on security grounds, said the police broke
the law by searching his clients’ rental car without
an order from a judge or a senior police officer. He
also complained about the lack of a forensic report
on the two petrol bombs which police claim they
found in the car.
The next hearing in their trial is scheduled for 4
July.
rsf.org
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