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Turkey: Authorities still holding two
women reporters with Kurdish news agency
3.8.2006
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Reporters Without Borders:
2 August 2006
Authorities still holding
two women reporters with Kurdish news agency DIHA
Reporters Without Borders called today for the
provisional release of Evrim Dengiz and Nesrin Yazar
while they await trial. The two women journalists,
who work for the Kurdish news agency DIHA, have been
held in pretrial detention since 15 February
although they did not commit any crime of violence,
the press freedom organisation said.
Their lawyer, Bedri Kuran, has appealed against the
decision to keep them in detention before a court in
Adana, where the next hearing is to be held on 25
August. They are to be tried by a court of assizes
in the eastern city of Malatya on charges of “threat
against the unity of the state and territorial
integrity,” for which they face a possible sentence
of life imprisonment.
10 May 2006
Call for release of two women journalists with
pro-Kurdish news agency
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.” |
Evrim Dengiz
Nesrin Yazar
Photo: RSF |
Evrim Dengiz“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.
Nesrin YazarTheir 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.
rsf org
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