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A court in Amed (Diyarbakır in Turkish) has sentenced Narin Gezgör, a founding member of the Rosa Women’s Association, a Kurdish women’s rights group, to seven years and six months in prison, the Center for Stockholm Freedom, citing Gazete Duvar.
Women’s Voice for Peace, a short film about Rosa Women’s AssociationAs part of the project “Women’s Voice for Peace”, documentary filmmaker Güliz Sağlam prepared a short film which was published by Rosa Women’s Association.Established in 2018 with the knowledge a…ANF News
Gezgör was sentenced in a new trial after an appeals court overturned an earlier verdict that carried the same prison term for the same charge due to the lower court’s failure to properly review the case.
The sentence was handed down on the charge of membership of a terrorist organization, which carries a minimum prison sentence of six years and three months.
The Rosa Women’s Association fights against violence against women and has been the focus of repression for years. The association was founded as a civil society organisation in Amed at the end of 2018. The association supports women affected by violence and campaigns for gender justice, environmental protection and a democratic culture of peace in society. After the state-imposed closure of all municipal women’s institutions in the wake of the coup attempt in 2016, it is now the only institution in Amed to which women can turn for advice and support.ANF News
It is common for Turkish authorities to prosecute and convict people on terrorism-related charges for their non-violent engagement with civil society and political commentary.
Politically active Kurds are often accused of membership in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK),In the second wave of repression in April 2021, the association was broken into by the police and searched. Since then, several activists have been sentenced to prison terms of varying lengths, including journalist Nurcan Yalçın and Peace Mother Hayriye Türkekul.
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Turkey’s anti-terror legislation has repeatedly drawn criticism in international reports for being too broad and ambiguous, allowing courts to interpret social affiliation as links to terrorism and comments as terrorist propaganda.
Turkish courts usually accept the testimony of anonymous witnesses as evidence of defendants’ ties to terrorism.
Among other things, the prosecution wanted Gezgör’s membership of Rosa, her involvement with the association, interviews she gave on women’s issues and her participation in press statements, rallies and funerals to be punished as “terrorism”. The lawyers accused the prosecution of classifying a legal association as “illegal” and of seeking to punish Narin Gezgör for her work against patriarchal violence. The lawyers demanded acquittal for their client, who did not attend the trial. The verdict is not yet final.ANF News
Allegations of torture and ill-treatment in police custody often involve detainees being coerced into signing statements that incriminate themselves and others.
In the 2022 edition of the Rule of Law Index published by the World Justice Project, Turkey ranked 116 out of 140 countries, scoring even worse than Russia and Belarus.
Turquia: La kurda Narin Gezgör, fundadora d’una associació de dones kurdes, condemnada a més de 7 anys de presó
Un tribunal d’Amed (Diyarbakır en turc) ha condemnat Narin Gezgör, membre fundadora de l‘Associació de Dones Rosa, un grup kurd pels drets de les dones, a set anys i sis mesos de presó , va informar dilluns el Centre per a la Llibertat d’Estocolm, citant la Gazete Duvar. Gezgör va ser condemnada en un nou judici després que un tribunal d’apel·lacions anul·lés un veredicte anterior que implicava la mateixa durada de presó pel mateix càrrec a causa de la fallada del tribunal inferior per examinar adequadament el cas.
La condemna es va dictar amb l’acusació de pertinença a una organització terrorista, que comporta una pena mínima de presó de sis anys i tres mesos. Les proves presentades contra Gezgör incloïen la seva pertinença a l’associació, així com les seves entrevistes als mitjans i testimonis anònims que la van incriminar. És habitual que les autoritats turques processin i condemnin persones per càrrecs relacionats amb el terrorisme pel seu compromís no violent amb la societat civil i comentaris polítics. Els kurds políticament actius sovint són acusats de pertinença al Partit dels Treballadors del Kurdistan (PKK), un grup armat designat com a organització terrorista per Turquia i bona part de la comunitat internacional.
La legislació antiterrorista de Turquia ha suscitat repetidament crítiques als informes internacionals per ser massa àmplia i ambigua, permetent als tribunals interpretar l’afiliació social com a vincles de terrorisme i els comentaris com a propaganda terrorista.
\Els tribunals turcs solen acceptar la declaració de testimonis anònims com a prova dels vincles dels acusats amb el terrorisme. Les denúncies de tortura i maltractaments sota custòdia policial sovint impliquen la coacció dels detinguts perquè signin declaracions que s’incriminen a ells mateixos i als altres
A l’edició de 2022 de l’Índex de l’Estat de Dret publicat pel World Justice Project, Turquia va ocupar el lloc 116 entre 140 països.
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Narin Gezgör, a linguist and women’s rights activist, has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison by a Turkish criminal court in the province of Amed (Diyarbakır) on charges of membership of a “terrorist organisation”.
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