October 8, 2017
Responding to news that a prosecutor has filed an indictment calling for jail terms of up to 15 years on terror charges for 11 human rights activists including Idil Eser and Taner Kilic, the director and chair of Amnesty International Turkey, John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International’s Europe Director said the following:
“This outrageous indictment contains no new information but instead reheats absurd allegations against some of Turkey’s most prominent human rights defenders.
“These brave activists have languished in jail for months on end for no reason other than their belief in human rights. For them to have spent even day behind bars is a gross injustice.
“This indictment is little more than a tatty patchwork of fabrication, innuendo and untruths and is a damning indictment of Turkey’s flawed justice system. The court must reject it in its entirety and ensure that our friends and colleagues are immediately and unconditionally released.”
https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/10/10/fabricated-terror-ties-and-injustice-turkey
http://www.epochtimes.com/b5/17/10/9/n9712975.htm (CHINESE)
