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    TEN STUDENTS TO BE PROSECUTED UNDER ARTICLE 301
    [email protected]

    BÄ°
    Nov 14 2008
    Turkey

    After writer Temel Demirer, the Minister of Justice granted permission
    for the prosecution of the ten university students under article 301
    for protesting the prison operations of 2000, too. Demirer will face
    the court tomorrow, the ten students on November 19.

    The Minister of Justice granted the permission for the prosecution
    of the ten university students under article 301 of the Penal Code
    (TCK). The students were nearly lynched in EskiÅ~_ehir while protesting
    the prison operations of 2000 after seven years. They were taken into
    custody afterwards.

    With this decision, students Ali Haydar GuneÅ~_, Esma Yavuz, Sabit
    Cicek, Å~^ahin Kösedagı, Nadide Toker, Ali Bozkına, Can Aydemir
    Sezer, Atilla Aka, Esra Sönmez and Nihal Samsun will be tried for the
    statements such as "murderer state" and "December 19 veterans". They
    will be facing two year prison sentences. Their first hearing will be
    at EskiÅ~_ehir's 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance on November 19.

    Temel Demirer, another person for whom Minister of Justice Mehmet
    Ali Å~^ahin granted permission to be tried under article 301, will
    have his trial tomorrow (November 14).

    Ministry of Justice had given permission for the continuance of
    the trial of Temel Demirer under article 301 for saying that Hrant
    Dink was not only killed for being an Armenian, but recognizing the
    genocide as well.

    The court sent the case of Demirer who is on trial for "denigrating
    publicly the state of the Turkish Republic to the ministry on May 15.

    Tursun family has two more article 301 files waiting According to the
    new arrangement in article 301, a permission needs to be taken from
    the Ministry of Justice before a case can be tried under article 301.

    The Ministry had not granted permission for the prosecution of Baran
    Tursun's family, father Mehmet Tursun, mother Berin Tursun, her sister
    Å~^elale Tursun, and the seven human rights defenders under article
    301. However, Tursun family has two more article 301 files waiting
    for ministry's decision. Baran Tursun was killed when allegedly not
    stopping for the police while driving.

    When the court released accused police officer Oral Emre Atar on
    January 14, the Tursun Family's reaction outside the courthouse
    in KarÅ~_ıyaka was highly vocal, leading to their being sued for
    insulting the institutions and organs of the Turkish state under
    article 301.

    --Boundary_(ID_6/0CFByRiIJmw3xOCr3u5A)--
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