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| European court says Ocalan trial unfair, recommends retrial |
| 2005-05-13 |
| The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday upheld a ruling in favour of jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, saying that he had been unfairly tried by a Turkish court, and urged Ankara to retry him. Ocalan was sentenced to death in a high-profile trial in 1999, but his sentence was commuted to a life sentence, which he is currently serving in the prison island of Imrali. In an 11-to-6 ruling, the European judges considered that the Turkish state security court judging Ocalan was neither independent nor impartial because of the presence of a military judge on the panel. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 European court says Ocalan trial unfair, recommends retrial Can't these guys wait until Turkey is an EU member before interfe....er, uh, getting involved? Oh yeah, right, there's that little issue of IF Turkey will ever become an EU member... |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-05-13 11:04 |