Although Amnesty International believes that the former deputies Zana, Dicle, Dogan and Sadak should have been released unconditionally, the retrial offered the opportunity to end the injustice of their continued imprisonment.

IHD said the reports given by Forensic Medical Institution to Wernicke Korsakoff patients werent in line with ethics. It called on the Ministry and prosecutors to take action against the reports, which lead to the patients being arrested arrested.

Its ironic that these events coincide with discussions that Turkish Penal Code is discriminative against women, especially with the use of such words as honor, public moral, the order of family and society, public decency...

With a new project of the Forensic Medical Institution, police or gendarme wont be present in the room when the doctor is examining a detainee. They will send the reports in a sealed envelope to the prosecutor.

Representatives of the EU Commission say that the Human Rights Foundation has a very wide definition of torture. The Foundations head Onen says that there has been a general inclination in the world after 2001 to narrow down the definition of torture.

The Human Rights Association published a statement on Newroz, which is also the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. IHD emphasized that Turkey had still not ratified the protocol -12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Human Rights Foundation Executive Board are facing a trial and could be removed from their posts. The case file was removed when the plaintiffs lawyer did not attend the hearing without excuse. The case will be dropped if not handled within three months.

The defendants were prosecuted for having attended the funeral of Ciftci in 1999. Dr. Ayan, was sentenced to 18 months and Kaya, together with other 28 defendants, to 18 months in prison.

Musician Tunc, a writer for the daily Yeniden Ozgur Gundem, and chief editor Colak, are facing interrogations for an article they wrote and published on the trial of the former DEP lawmakers. They are accused with insulting justice decision.

Ragip Zarakolu, owner of the Belge Publishing House was acquittted too. IPAs Alex.Krikorian and Kjell O. Jensen from Norvegian Pen attended to the hearing for solidarity.

Three years have passed in the death fasts, which started on October 20, 2000. A total of 107 people died up to today.

The Security Directorate lifted an administrative investigation about claims by DEHAP official Gunduz, who says she was raped by civilian police officers. The reason for the decision was that no security official is in the position of defendant.

Sanar Yurdatapan stands for the principles of tolerance and free expression, which are fundamental to respect for all human rights, said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch.

Singer Tunc is released. The other artists, singer Rojin and stand-up showman Batki, who performed in the same festival, are sentenced in absentia. The first hearing of the trial opened against the artists will be held in August.

121 Turkish intellectuals, of whom 12 of whom are women, including Yurdatapan, Kanar, Öndul, Kurkcu, Kocali, Kemal, Kaplan, Duran, Zarakolu called for peaceful discussion of Turkeys problems and legalization of political amnesty.

The actors and actresses protested the seizure of a fly swatter used in a theatre play Gavara during a culture festival in Hakkari. The fly swatter was seized because of its colors.

OMCT is gravely concerned for the psychological and physical integrity of Ms. Gündüz and calls on the government of Turkey to initiate an immediate, impartial investigation into these allegations.

Police confiscated a number of confidential files and computers of Human Rights Association, some of which contain information on human rights violations perpetrated by the security forces.

Human Rights Associations Diyarbakir branch revealed that 24 people died and 45 injured from landmine explosions and other leftover explosives between 2002-2003. Most of those who died were children.

Molped reklamı ile ilk defa üstü örtük özel günler deşifre oldu. Deşifre olmakla da kalmadı, kapalı mekanlardan ya da gündelik hayatla mesafesi çizilmiş doğal manzaralardan beri gelip sokağa indi, ele güne sorulabilir oldu.