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Sweden MPs call on Turkish president to
release imprisoned yuksel Mutlu without conditions
30.6.2009
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June
30, 2009
STOCKHOLM,
Sweden, —
Two MPs Amineh Kakabaveh
and Hans Linde from the Left Party in Sweden wrote
on Monday a letter to Turkish President Abdullah Gül,
and demanded that the female representative on human
rights organization - IHD Yuksel Mutlu release,
without conditions, from Bergama prison.
Yuksel Mutlu has worked a long time in Turkey with
human rights issues, and fought for women's rights.
Last, she wrote together with the Women's platform
for a Lasting Peace (Surekli Baris icin kadin
platformu) a report on the massacre in Mazidag.
Following the report,www.ekurd.net
she
was arrested by Turkish security forces May 28,
2009, and imprisoned in the town of Bergama.
We publish their letter:
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Amineh Kakabaveh, Member
of Parliament, Left Party of Sweden |
Hans Linde Member of
Parliament, Left Party of Sweden |
To
Abdullah Gül
It has come to our knowledge that the Human
Rights-activist Yuksel Mutlu, Foundation of Human
Rights of Turkey, is held imprisoned at the Bargana
prison in Izmir. She was arrested after that she had
written a report about the incidents in Mardin/Mazidag,
where 47 people were killed.
She had spoken to relatives of those who had been
killed, the governor of Mardin, local human rights
organisations, political and social organisations.
Together with others Yuksel Mutlu wrote a report
about the killings in Zangirde-Mardin. Among other
things Yuksel Mutlu had discovered and reported how
the so called village guards misuse their power.
After that the security forces started to put
pressure on an organisation “Women´s platform for a
feasible peace” which also had been involved in the
work with Mutlu´s report. The telephones of this
organisation and Mutlus telephone was tapped by the
police and the security forces.
After some time Mutlu was arrested,www.ekurd.net
put
into a cell for three day and then sent to the
Bargana prison in Izmir. All this obviously because
her work defending Human Rights.
To reveal and report about bad conditions in a
society is a right which belongs to any citizen in a
society and it is an important duty for an
organisation which is fighting for human right as
IHD and an organisation like “Women´s platform for a
feasible peace”.
To stop them or hinder then in their work, arrest
them and put people fighting for human right into
prison is a violation of the human rights.
We demand that Yuksel Mutlu must be released
immediately.
Amineh Kakabaveh Member of Parliament, Left Party of
Sweden
Hans Linde Member of Parliament, Left Party of
Sweden
Copyright, respective
author or news agency,
EuroKurd Human Rights –
EHR, Stockholm www.eurokurd.net
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