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Kurds in Denmark request fair play in
filed charges against ROJ TV
20.10.2010
By Hassan Shahan, press release received by ekurd.net
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October
20, 2010
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, — Since August 30th,
Danish public prosecutors have not only filed
charges against the Kurdish television station ROJ
TV and Mesopotamia Broadcast A/S METV, but they have
also frozen the broadcast company’s bank accounts.
By freezing their bank accounts, ROJ TV has been
placed in a difficult position to fulfil their
duties toward their creditors and consequently cut
off from running their business.
As representatives of the Danish-Kurdish society we
object to the injustice business interference by
Danish prosecutors, based on the fact that the court
case against ROJ TV has not even began.
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Therefore it is our
opinion that the Danish prosecution authority has
intentionally revoked ROJ TV’s broadcasting license,
before the case has even put for trial in the
Copenhagen City court,www.ekurd.netas
well in line with the confiscation, we believe that
the Danish authorities have given up on the long
term pressure from the Turkish authorities. In other
words ROJ TV has been convicted beforehand.
We would also like to point out that the
investigation of ROJ TV in fact only began after the
Turkish embassy had raised allegations against ROJ
TV in 2005, on accounts that ROJ TV presumably was
being financed by organizations listed as terrorist
groups by the European Union.
The prosecutors at this current stage have not been
able to provide any evidence supporting these
charges, however along with the assistance with the
police they still went ahead to take a strong hold
on ROJ TV’s economy and this leads to a suspicion of
an arranged agreement.
It is also a coincidence that the Minister of
Justice, Lars Barfoed, only began to support the
prosecutor’s request to bring charges against the
backers of ROJ TV under Paragraph 114e of the
Anti-terrorism Act as a result of a long term
one-sided media campaign lead by the Berlingske
Tidende newspaper.
The news about the charges against ROJ TV were
announced by the prosecutors on the same day as
NATO’s general secretary Anders Fogh Rasmussen was
on an official visit to Denmark. The Danish public
were already familiar with Turkey’s reaction to the
election of Anders Fogh Rasmussen as Secretary
General of NATO and one of Turkey’s requirements for
accepting Anders Fogh Rasmussen was the promise to
close down ROJ TV.
Furthermore the charges against ROJ TV were still
carried out despite TV – and Radio nævnet (board)
that had previously reviewed the content of ROJ TV’s
programs and whether the broadcasting license should
be suspended. However each time the board had proved
that ROJ TV had not violated Danish law.
As citizens and organisations in a democratic
country we still believe in the right to freedom of
thought and speech and that the constitutional state
of Denmark will also represent a consensus of almost
30,000 Danish- Kurdish entitled citizens.
Once again we object to the prosecutors’ practices
and at the same time we encourage to hold on to one
of the valuable basic principles of our society,
which its citizens and organisations can only be
prosecuted by court of justice and are innocent
until proven guilty.
Yours sincerely,
Bestyrelse for GORAN bevægelse i Danmark,
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) - Komiteen i
Danmark
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) - Komiteen i
Danmark
Den Demokratiske Union Parti i Syrien (PYD),
Kurdistans Demokrat Parti i Iran (KDP),
Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK),
Kurdistan Friheds Parti,
National Resistance of Al Ahwaz
KOMKAR, Foreningen af Arbejdere fra Kurdistan i
Danmark,
FeyKurd – Sammenslutningen af Kurdiske Foreninger i
Danmark,
Faylee Kurdisk Forening - Ahmad Tagi Khodadad ,
Dansk-Kurdisk Arbejdsgiverforening (DKAF)
Dansk-Kurdisk Kulturcenter,
Kurdisk Kvindeforening,
Dansk-Kurdisk Ungdomsforening,
Kurdisk Forum,
Support Roj TV-gruppen,
FORBUNDET for Kurdiske Studerende og Akademikere (FOKUS-A),
Foreningen Sarmasik,
Mesopotamien Sol,
CHAK - Dler Colnara
KurdSite - Mustafa Hussein,
Dansk-Kurdisk Venskabsforening i Holstebro
Kulturforeningen for syrisk kurdere i Danmark
Arbejdsguppen for Fred og Demokrati i Tyrkiet -
Mirriam Moazzeni
Initiativet for Kurdiske Lærere i FOKUS-A - Fatih
Baran
Kusca.com - Foreningen for Kusca i Danmark
Dansk-Kurdisk Venskabsforening - Villo Sigurdsson
Det Kurdiske Initiativ i Odense
Lars Aslan Rasmussen - Medlem af
Borgerrepræsentationen i Københavns Kommune,
Allan Ahmad - Medlem af Borgerrepræsentationen i
Københavns Kommune,
Serdal Benli - Byrådsmedlem i Gladsaxe Kommune, MF-Kandidat,
Jenan Jemil Bozo – Byrådsmedlem i Odense Kommune
Bilal Inekci - Viceborgmester i Ishøj Kommune,
Erdal Colak - Byrådsmedlem i Vallensbæk Kommune,
Ahmet Demir - Socialkonsulent,
Adil Erdem - Forfatter,
Rojan Hazim - Forfatter,
Babab Zagezi - Forfatter
Baban Mizgin - Musiker,
Figen Fener - Musiker,
Amanj Zarafian - Komponist
Hassan Abbas - Orientalsk arkæolog
Fahmy Almajid - Journalist
Arian Baban - Journalist, Kurdistanpost
Dara Hussein - Journalist, Kurd-TV
Asos Jamal - Journalist, Kurd-TV
Hama Fariq Hasan - Journalist, Kurd-TV
Nawroz Ali - Journalist
Sherko Baban - Journalist
Hawre Mahmud - Journalist
Shilan Abdulla - Journalist
Garok Ahmad - Journalist
Celal Deveci - Psykolog
Cayan Cetin - Jurist
Mehmet Zeki Demir, Kurdisk repræsentant i
integrationsrådet i Odense
Kontaktpersoner
Fatih Baran - Tlf. nr.: 26 22 19 78 - Mail:
fatih_baran_2@hotmail.com
Devrim Inan - Tlf. nr.: 28 94 36 20 - Mail:
cet-in@live.dk
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