2011-03-10

Pressfriheten hotad i Turkiet?

Hurryiet English rapporterar om ytterligare häktningar i anslutning till den segslitna Ergenekonprocessen. Enligt jurister är det alltför lätt att häkta  mnniskor i Turkiet. ERdogans  islamska APK.regering är känslig för kritik. Ergenekonaffären har egendomliga turer, militären har agerat för ett bibehållet sekulärt statsskick...
Idag sitter 68 journalister häktade utan rättegång

"Turkey's justice minister has termed the recent arrest of journalists as a legal requirement, but many jurists have argued that the decision to arrest someone is made too easily in Turkey
Arresting people has already crossed the line in Turkey. Ninety-nine of one-hundred arrest decisions lack the concrete reason required by law. The law requires concrete evidence such as when and how the journalists became a members of a terror organization," criminal lawyer Metin Feyzioglu, who is also the
chief of Ankara Bar Association, told the Hurriyet Daily News & Economic Review on Monday. "Arrest in the Turkish legal system is an exceptional case; it prioritizes judgment without arrest," he said
Last week a new wave of arrests, as part of the ongoing Ergenekon case, increased the number of journalists in prison from 61 to 68, and sparked a huge public outcry. This put the arrests under more scrutiny"

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