>Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 01:48:21 +0200 >From: Press Agency Ozguluk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Protest the extradition of Fehriye Erdal! > >Example letter > >To the Belgium Minister of Jusitice, > >Since september 26, 1999 Fehriye Erdal is imprisoned in >Belgium. For the moment only because of a extradition request >from the Turkish state. > >Juridicaly-, humanly- and politicaly spoken this impronment, >because of a extradition request from the Turkish state, is >wrong. > >- When extradited to Turkey F. Erdal will have to face trial >on charges because of article 146/1. She will be accused of >being a person that is aiming "to overthrow the Turkish state >with the use of force". This law is purely policital. Nobody >should be extradited based on political identity. > >- The particular court, that tries to get F. Erdal convicted, >is a so called State Security Court. It's members, >procescutors and judges, are militaries. > >Not even the Europeon Organisation of Human Rights recognices >the State Security Courts and its sentences. Extraditing >F. Erdal would mean the Belgian authorities would break their >own laws. > >- F. Erdal faces the death penalty when she falls in the hands >of the Turkish state. Nobody facing the death penalty can be >extradited. > >- Turkey is a state where people are tortured and executed. >All human right organisations acknowledge this. By extraditing >F. Erdal the Belgian state would send her straight into the >torture chambers. Nobody facing torture and murder may be >extradited. > >- Because of threads against her in the Turkish press - by >ministers in function! - Fehriye Erdal requested political >asylum in Belgium. > >The way Fehriye Erdal was treated and the fact that she did >not immediately received political asylum, does men fear that >in Belgium, political asylum has been put out of order. > >This is unacceptable! > > >Protest adresses: > >Ministerie van Justitie >De Heer Marc Verwilghen >Minister van Justitie >Kabinet van de Minister van Justitie >Waterloolaan, 115 >1000 Brussel >telefoon : 02 / 542 79 11 >telefax : 02 / 538 07 67 > >-- >Pressagency Ozgurluk.Org >In solidarity with the Peoples Liberationstruggle in Turkey and >Kurdistan http://www.ozgurluk.org >DHKP-C: http://www.ozgurluk.org/dhkc > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
