AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CONCERNED OVER DINK LOT
PanARMENIAN.Net
28.09.2006 18:30 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Amnesty International posted a letter on its
website that stated it was dismayed at the news that "yet another
case has been opened against journalist Hrant Dink on charges of
‘denigrating Turkishness’ under Article 301 of the Turkish Penal
Code." "The organization considers that this prosecution is part of an
emerging pattern of harassment against the journalist exercising his
right to freedom of expression," the organization said in its letter,
entitled "Turkey: Journalist targeted yet again." Hrant Dink was given
a six-month suspended prison sentence in October 2005 on charges of
"denigrating Turkishness," which was upheld by the Court of Appeal in
July 2006, and if found guilty on the same charge, Dink would go to
prison, said the organization in its letter, and further added that
in that case Dink would be considered as a prisoner of conscience.
Amnesty International message also refers lately ceased case regarding
another writer, novelist Elif Shafak, on charges under Article 301
relating to statements made by characters in her novel The Bastard
of Istanbul," the Zaman reports.