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Kurdish feminist mayor Ayşe Gökkan sentenced to 22.5 yrs jail on blatant false charges

from thefreeonline by Ayşe Gökkan at ANHA, Wikipedia and thefreeonline

A Turkish appeals court in Amed upheld a 22,5-year prison sentence against Kurdish politician and former mayor Ayşe Gökkan in and rejected a request for her release from prison.

Freedom NOW for Ayse – and all political prisoners in Turkey

Kurdish politician Ayşe Gökkan, imprisoned in Turkey, has failed for the time being with her appeal against her sentence to more than two decades in prison.

see also.. Legalise the PKK ! EU courts declare Kurdish group a ‘party to conflict’ and ‘not terrorist’ republished 28th April 2023

Gökkan had been sentenced to 22 years and 6 months in prison on so-called terror charges by the 9th Criminal Chamber in Diyarbakır in October 2021. A regional court of appeal in Amed (tr. Diyarbakır) confirmed the verdict on Wednesday.

The sentence is made up of several sentences: twelve years for alleged leadership of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), seven and a half years for alleged membership of the same organisation and three years for alleged PKK propaganda.

Ayşe Gökkan was born in the Suruç district of Urfa in 1965 and studied journalism. She has been arrested more than 80 times, and the preliminary proceedings against her were usually based on so-called terror charges.

In 2009, Gökkan was elected mayor of Mardin’s Nusaybin district with 83 percent of the vote. Most of the investigations against her occurred during her term of office. Gökkan was elected spokesperson of the Free Women’s Movement (TJA) in February 2020.

In December of that year, she was sentenced to eighteen months in prison in Mardin.

In the trial she was accused of being in a restricted military area and causing damage to property. The charge stems from an act of civil obedience in October 2013.

Ayse’s hunger strike at new Syrian border wall

At the time, Gökkan was mayor of Nusaybin and protested against the construction of a military wall with a hunger strike on the border with Syria.

It’s not the first time she’s been in jail. The last time she was in prison was in 2017 for five months. She was also taken into police custody dozens of times.

Nusaybin, May 2016,where *Ayşe Gökkan* was elected Mayor in 2009, a European city after a Turkish ‘peacekeeping operation’ by the Turkish Special Force butchers, as in dozens more Kurdish majority towns, while Europe turned a blind eye.. The journalist Zehra Dogan spent 20 months in jail for painting the copy of this photo above. Hundreds of journalists are still jailed. ( Zehra was a founder of JINHA, Turkey’s first women’s news agency, which was shut down in 2016 under Statutory Decree No. 675 along with 180 other media outlets.) *Ayşe Gökkan*, now spokeswoman of the **Free Women’s Movement** has now been confirmed for 22,5ears jail accused of ‘terrorism’, Sept 2021 trial. She has been arrested over 80 times already.

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TJK-E: Organized women will not be silenced –

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Legalise the PKK ! EU courts declare Kurdish group a ‘party to conflict’ and ‘not terrorist’

We republish this post from 2021-now more relevant than ever, as war criminal Erdogan tries to win the election by racist arresting and criminalising of Kurds labelled without proof as supporters of the PKK (now on a unilateral ceasefire).

from thefreeonline by medyanews.net…/thecanary.co…

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from medyanews.net…/thecanary.co… shared with thanks

Labeling of the PKK as a terrorist organization is controversial; as an array of organizations, people, and NGOs contend that the PKK does not engage in organized terrorist activities, or systemically target civilians.^{[45][46][47][48][49][50]} In 2020, the supreme court of Belgium ruled that the PKK was not a terrorist organization, instead labeling the group as an actor in an internal armed conflict.^[54][55]

PKK terrorists plotting on Working Women’s Day in Nusaybin before the Turkish NATO airforce demolished their city

In 2008 and in 2018 the EU court of Justice ruled the PKK was classified as a terror organization with a lack of due process.^[51][52^] However, the EU still classifies the PKK as a terror organization.^[53] In 2020, the supreme court of Belgium ruled that the PKK was not a terrorist organization, instead…

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Pfizer Gave Millions to ‘Independent’ Groups to Push COVID Vaccine Mandates

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Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in 2021 made numerous grants to medical associations, consumer groups and civil rights organizations for the purpose of creating the appearance of widespread support for COVID-19 vaccine mandates, investigative journalist Lee Fang reported.

As the vaccine mandates rolled out in 2021, Pfizer stayed quiet on the question of mandates — but public health groups, patient advocacy groups, doctors’ associations, community groups and others, along with the Biden administration, actively advocated for vaccine mandates as a key measure to protect public health.

New disclosures from Pfizer, posted by Fang on his Substack, show that many of these same groups were taking money from Pfizer while they promoted the idea that the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines were “safe and effective,” despite a lack of scientific data to back those claims.

Prominent groups on the extensive list of those who took Pfizer funding

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Revealed: most of EU delegation to crucial fishing talks made up of fishery lobbyists

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A porter carries a yellowfin tuna from a fishing boat to a market in Male, capital of Maldives. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images

Seascape: the state of our oceans | European Union | Karen McVeigh

Europe accused of ‘neocolonialism’ for using vassal small island states to sway policy and continue ‘disgraceful plundering’ of distant waters

More than half of the EU’s delegation to a crucial body of tuna stock regulators is made up of fishing industry lobbyists, the Guardian’s Seascape project can reveal, as Europe is accused of “neocolonial” overfishing in the Indian Ocean.

The numbers could shed some light on why the EU recently objected to an agreement by African and Asian coastal nations to restrict harmful fish aggregating devices (FADs) that disproportionately harvest juvenile tuna. Stocks of yellowfin tuna are overfished in the Indian Ocean.

FADs are large floating rafts that attract fish by casting a shadow, making it easy…

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