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DINK GUNMAN'S PLEAD FOR RELEASE REJECTED
Hurriyet Daily News
Jan 24 2012
Turkey
Ogun Samast was sentenced to more than 22 years in prison for
murder. AA photo The Supreme Court of Appeals yesterday rejected a
plea by a defendant lawyer in the case of murdered Turkish-Armenian
journalist Hrant Dink to release convicted triggerman Ogun Samast.
Samast's lawyer, Levent Yıldırım, petitioned the Supreme Court of
Appeals for his client's release on the grounds that Samast's arrest
pending trial would exceed five years by the end of January, breaching
reasonable time limits according to the Law of Criminal Procedure.
The court, however, indicated in its ruling that Samast had been
arrested pending trial for a total of four years six months and
five days and that his arrest was thus not in breach of reasonable
time limits.
The appeals court based its decision on a local court's ruling on July
25, 2011, according to which Samast's arrest pending trial began on
Jan. 20, 2007.
Ogun Samast was sentenced to more than 22 years in prison on the
charges of "premeditated murder" and "carrying an unlicensed weapon"
by a juvenile court in Istanbul for Dink's murder.
Hrant Dink, the chief editor for weekly Agos, a paper published in
both Turkish and Armenian, was shot dead in front of his office on
Jan. 19, 2007.
Hurriyet Daily News
Jan 24 2012
Turkey
Ogun Samast was sentenced to more than 22 years in prison for
murder. AA photo The Supreme Court of Appeals yesterday rejected a
plea by a defendant lawyer in the case of murdered Turkish-Armenian
journalist Hrant Dink to release convicted triggerman Ogun Samast.
Samast's lawyer, Levent Yıldırım, petitioned the Supreme Court of
Appeals for his client's release on the grounds that Samast's arrest
pending trial would exceed five years by the end of January, breaching
reasonable time limits according to the Law of Criminal Procedure.
The court, however, indicated in its ruling that Samast had been
arrested pending trial for a total of four years six months and
five days and that his arrest was thus not in breach of reasonable
time limits.
The appeals court based its decision on a local court's ruling on July
25, 2011, according to which Samast's arrest pending trial began on
Jan. 20, 2007.
Ogun Samast was sentenced to more than 22 years in prison on the
charges of "premeditated murder" and "carrying an unlicensed weapon"
by a juvenile court in Istanbul for Dink's murder.
Hrant Dink, the chief editor for weekly Agos, a paper published in
both Turkish and Armenian, was shot dead in front of his office on
Jan. 19, 2007.