International Initiative
Freedom for Ocalan Peace in Kurdistan
P.O. Box 100511, D-50445 Koeln
E-Mail: info@freedom-for-ocalan.com
Url: www.freedom-for-ocalan.com
Cologne, 5 March 2003
INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE BRIEFINGS:
Abdullah Ocalan's Solitary Confinement
Continues!
Today again Mr. Ocalans lawyers were denied to see their client
under the pretext of adverse weather. Thus the Kurdish leaders
solitary confinement begins its fifteenth week. An end of this illegal
practice seems still far away. In spite of repeated requests to
put an end to this isolation by the Council of Europe Turkey does
not seem ready to come around.
Meanwhile, the European Court of Human Rights has announced that
its decision in the Ocalan case will be given on March 12, 2003
after it had been postponed several times. Mr. Ocalans lawyers
said they would raise the arbitrary practice of the Turkish authorities
before the European Court. A well-founded complaint was being prepared.
A few weeks ago the Presidential Council of the Kurdistan Freedom
and Democracy Congress declared defence war, a decision which was
also motivated by the inhuman treatment of their president.
Worldwide Kurdish protests had prompted the Committee for the Prevention
of Torture (CPT) of the Council of Europe to visit Mr. Ocalan two
weeks ago. An official communiqué by the CPT is still to
come.
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