TEN STUDENTS TO BE PROSECUTED UNDER ARTICLE 301
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Nov 14 2008
Turkey

After writer Temel Demirer, the Minister of Justice granted permission
for the prosecution of the ten university students under article 301
for protesting the prison operations of 2000, too. Demirer will face
the court tomorrow, the ten students on November 19.

The Minister of Justice granted the permission for the prosecution
of the ten university students under article 301 of the Penal Code
(TCK). The students were nearly lynched in EskiÅ~_ehir while protesting
the prison operations of 2000 after seven years. They were taken into
custody afterwards.

With this decision, students Ali Haydar GuneÅ~_, Esma Yavuz, Sabit
Cicek, Å~^ahin Kösedagı, Nadide Toker, Ali Bozkına, Can Aydemir
Sezer, Atilla Aka, Esra Sönmez and Nihal Samsun will be tried for the
statements such as "murderer state" and "December 19 veterans". They
will be facing two year prison sentences. Their first hearing will be
at EskiÅ~_ehir’s 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance on November 19.

Temel Demirer, another person for whom Minister of Justice Mehmet
Ali Å~^ahin granted permission to be tried under article 301, will
have his trial tomorrow (November 14).

Ministry of Justice had given permission for the continuance of
the trial of Temel Demirer under article 301 for saying that Hrant
Dink was not only killed for being an Armenian, but recognizing the
genocide as well.

The court sent the case of Demirer who is on trial for "denigrating
publicly the state of the Turkish Republic to the ministry on May 15.

Tursun family has two more article 301 files waiting According to the
new arrangement in article 301, a permission needs to be taken from
the Ministry of Justice before a case can be tried under article 301.

The Ministry had not granted permission for the prosecution of Baran
Tursun’s family, father Mehmet Tursun, mother Berin Tursun, her sister
Å~^elale Tursun, and the seven human rights defenders under article
301. However, Tursun family has two more article 301 files waiting
for ministry’s decision. Baran Tursun was killed when allegedly not
stopping for the police while driving.

When the court released accused police officer Oral Emre Atar on
January 14, the Tursun Family’s reaction outside the courthouse
in KarÅ~_ıyaka was highly vocal, leading to their being sued for
insulting the institutions and organs of the Turkish state under
article 301.

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