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Turkey should redouble efforts to hold all involved in Dink's killing
accountable: Human Rights Watch
12:37 - 18.09.10
Turkish authorities should redouble their efforts to bring to justice
all those involved in the killing of Hrant Dink, Human Rights Watch
said in a statement, following a ruling on September 14, 2010, of the
European Court of Human Rights.
The court ruled that Turkey should have, but failed to, take steps to
protect Dink, the prominent Armenian-Turkish journalist, and failed to
conduct an effective investigation into his murder in January 2007.
The European Court ordered the government to pay his family 105,000
in damages.
A murder trial of the alleged gunman and 19 other defendants in the
case has been ongoing for three years. But the European Court ruled
that Turkish administrative and judicial authorities have blocked
investigations into whether members of the Istanbul and Trabzon police
and gendarmerie were also implicated in the killing.
"The European Court's damning verdict should not be the end of efforts
to deliver justice for Hrant Dink's murder," said Emma Sinclair-Webb,
Turkey researcher at Human Rights Watch. "Turkey now has an
unambiguous duty to reopen the investigation and cast the net wider
than those currently on trial. Both legal obligations and justice
require addressing state negligence and possible collusion in the
killing."
Only days before Dink was murdered, his lawyers had applied to the
European Court of Human Rights, contending that his freedom of
expression and right to a fair trial had been violated after he was
convicted of allegedly "insulting Turkishness." Following his murder,
lawyers acting for his family lodged four more separate applications
to the European Court, contending that the Turkish authorities had
failed to protect Dink's life and to conduct an effective
investigation into his murder. The European Court decided to consider
all the applications together.
Tert.am
From: A. Papazian
accountable: Human Rights Watch
12:37 - 18.09.10
Turkish authorities should redouble their efforts to bring to justice
all those involved in the killing of Hrant Dink, Human Rights Watch
said in a statement, following a ruling on September 14, 2010, of the
European Court of Human Rights.
The court ruled that Turkey should have, but failed to, take steps to
protect Dink, the prominent Armenian-Turkish journalist, and failed to
conduct an effective investigation into his murder in January 2007.
The European Court ordered the government to pay his family 105,000
in damages.
A murder trial of the alleged gunman and 19 other defendants in the
case has been ongoing for three years. But the European Court ruled
that Turkish administrative and judicial authorities have blocked
investigations into whether members of the Istanbul and Trabzon police
and gendarmerie were also implicated in the killing.
"The European Court's damning verdict should not be the end of efforts
to deliver justice for Hrant Dink's murder," said Emma Sinclair-Webb,
Turkey researcher at Human Rights Watch. "Turkey now has an
unambiguous duty to reopen the investigation and cast the net wider
than those currently on trial. Both legal obligations and justice
require addressing state negligence and possible collusion in the
killing."
Only days before Dink was murdered, his lawyers had applied to the
European Court of Human Rights, contending that his freedom of
expression and right to a fair trial had been violated after he was
convicted of allegedly "insulting Turkishness." Following his murder,
lawyers acting for his family lodged four more separate applications
to the European Court, contending that the Turkish authorities had
failed to protect Dink's life and to conduct an effective
investigation into his murder. The European Court decided to consider
all the applications together.
Tert.am
From: A. Papazian