AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL¯: HRANT DINK IS "PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE"

Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Sept 28 2006

WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 28, NOYAN TAPAN. The American ®Amnesty
International¯ organization expressed its indignation on the occasion
that a criminal action was brought already for the third time with
accusation of "humiliating the Turk" against Hrant Dink, the editor
of the Armenian "Akos" newspaper of Istanbul. "Article 310 must not
only be changed but comletely be taken out of the Criminal Code,"
is said in the statement of the organization.

According to the "Turkish Weekly" periodical, the American organization
believes that this prosecution towards Dink is a bright example
of those pressures which are used against journalists peacefully
making use of their liberty of expression. And Turkey as a state
singed the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights
and Fundamental Freedoms as well as the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Right, has a legal commitment to carry out them,"
the statement authors emphasized.

The organization that considered Dink to be "a prisoner of conscience"
demands from the Turkish judicial system to justify him.

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