MADRID, 15 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The influential human rights lawyer Eren Keskin was sentenced this Monday in Turkey to six years in prison for belonging to a terrorist organization.
A court in the city of Istanbul has also sentenced three officials of the pro-Kurdish daily ‘Ozgur Gundem’, closed by court order in August 2016, as reported by the newspaper ‘BirGun’.
Among them are the newspaper’s director, Inan Kizilkaya, and editor Kemal Sancili, convicted of “terrorist propaganda”, “attempt to violate the unity of the state” and membership of an armed organization.
Keskin, for her part, has indicated on her Twitter account that in the past she had been charged and imprisoned for her political ideas, but had never been convicted of belonging to a terrorist group. “I have been 30 years working for Human Rights. They have judged me a lot, they imprisoned me for my thoughts. However, for the first time I have been considered a member of an armed organization and I have been sentenced. Six years and three months. nowhere. I’m here, “he detailed.
Milean Buyum, from the NGO Amnesty International (AI), has described the verdict as an “injustice” and has stated in a message broadcast on the aforementioned social network that “Keskin has dedicated his life to defending the rights of women and prisoners and he has fought for the Justice of the relatives of disappeared persons “.
“She is a lawyer for Human Rights who raises her voice in the face of injustices,” she said before emphasizing that the sentence “is due to three decades of work” in favor of Human Rights.
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