>From: "hkb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Petition
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>Free Fehriye Erdal, Political prisoner in Belgium
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>Ms Fehriye Erdal, 23, of Turkish nationality, was arrested in Belgium on =
>26 September 1999 and has been in detention ever since. Her demand for =
>political asylum was rejected by the Belgian Minister of the Interior on =
>10 July 2000.
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>The High Commissionner for Refugees is however of the opinion that Ms =
>Erdal cannot be sent to Turkey or to another country. That would be =
>contrary to article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights. =
>Fehriye Erdal should thus be freed, all the more so as the Belgian =
>Council of State suspended both the decision to refuse her right of stay =
>and the order to leave the country, delivered on 25 July 2000 by the =
>Minister of the Interior.=20
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>Ms Erdal has been on hunger-strike since July 14. In order to demand her =
>liberation, fifteen other people began a solidarity hunger-strike on =
>August 5.
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>On 4 August, the President of the Belgian League of Human Rights, Dan =
>Van Raemdonck wrote to the Minister of the Interior, Antoine Duquesne: =
>"We ask you to put an end to this arbitrary detention, since expulsion =
>from Belgium is not possible without particularly grave risks".
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>In consequence, the undersigned demand the immediate and unconditonal =
>liberation of Fehriye Erdal.
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>To be returned to Comit=E9 de solidarit=E9 avec les prisonniers =
>politiques
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>rue Belliard, 197, boite 8
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>T=E9l=E9phone: 02 280 22 28
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>Fax: 02 280 22 29
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>E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]=20
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