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To International Public Audience: KNK
calls for solidarity with ROJ TV?
24.1.2012
By Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) |
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January
24, 2012
TO INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC AUDIENCE
ROJ TV, the libertarian media broadcasting of
Kurdish people, has been stopped to carrying its
broadcasting by EUTELSAT since 21 January, on 24.00.
This unilateral and outrageous decision of EUTELSAT
is completely illegitimate and contrary of universal
law by violating freedom of expression, information,
media and press.
As it is known, Copenhagen City Court announced the
verdict of the closure case against ROJ TV by
rejecting the demand of closure of it. The court
indicated that “there is no legal ground for the
revocation of the channel’s licence and the seizure
of channel’s assets”. Yet, the Court punished ROJ TV
by a pecuniary penalty on the grounds of violating
the anti-terror law of Denmark, which was criticized
strongly by station’s defence attorneys and appealed
almost simultaneously.
In spite of the court’s decision of rejecting
closure and revocation ROJ TV’s licence, EUTELSAT
has ended the contract of channel and stop unlinking
to its satellites unilaterally and illegitimately by
the so called argumentation “to avoid incurring
criminal liability as an accomplice to terrorist
activities”.
We have been condemning strongly EUTELSAT’s
illegitimate decision against violating the freedom
of expression and right of free media broadcasting
of 40 million populated Kurdish people and the all
oppressed minorities and groups living in Kurdistan
and Turkey,www.ekurd.net
who has been struggling for its cultural and
political rights against Turkish authoritarian
regime and the other dictatorships in Middle East
for decades. It is very clear for us that this
decision was forced to taken by Turkish government’s
lobbying at French Government in the exchange of
accepting genocide of Armenian People as a crime in
French laws.
We have been calling to all friends and democratic
public audience for standing in solidarity with ROJ
TV and Kurdish people against this dirty politics of
EUTELSAT and French Government, in collaboration
with Turkish authoritarian regime. Since this
decision is not only a great violation of Kurdish
people’s freedom of expression, but also a very
great threat against the rights of minorities and
criminalization of freedom struggles by constituting
a precedent. We believe that the protesting
activities of us against this dirty collaboration
violating our freedom of media and press through all
possible legitimate ways are going to succeed in
stopping this illegitimate decision. As the attached
letters, you can also read about the international
civic organisations's (CPJ and RWB) critics and
protests against this decision.
Please send your protest message to the following
fax, e-mails, and post addresses.
Fax : 00.33.1.53.98.37.00 or 00.33.1.53.98.37.88
Par mail : voconnor@eutelsat.fr ; fgautier@eutelsat.fr
Courrier : Eutelsat SA, 70 rue BALARD, 75502 Paris
CEDEX 15
Yours Sincerely
KNK Presidential Board
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