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Just wanting to pass this along. I don't have any additional
information. It seems one can get into trouble in some circles when
saying things that are not approved of by the authorities.
Steve
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From: [log in to unmask] (Martijn Dekker)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap,soc.culture.turkish,alt.disability.blind.social
Subject: Protester against police crackdown on blind protest arrested
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 02:11:28 +0200
Organization: InternAUT <http://www.inlv.demon.nl/internaut/>
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Hi all,
Looks like disability rights (and rights, period) have a long way to go in
Turkey. And that wants to join the European Union! :-(
- Martijn (Netherlands)
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/member/politics/story/12681.html
Turks Punish Online Copbasher
Reuters
12:04pm 2.Jun.98.PDT
ISTANBUL -- A Turkish court has given a teenager a 10-month suspended jail
sentence for using the Internet to criticize rough police treatment of a
group of blind protesters.
In a landmark case, 18-year-old Emre Ersoz was charged with "publicly
insulting state security forces" after comments he made on a Turkish ISP's
online daily forum in December.
The case is the first to pit Internet users against Turkish security
forces, who traditionally brook little dissent.
Ersoz was taking part in a debate centered around police treatment of a
group of blind people protesting against potholes in pavements in the
nation's capital Ankara. He signed off using his name and email address,
and was then reported to the police by another user.
State prosecutors then applied to Turknet for Ersoz's full address.
In his testimony, Ersoz argued that his online comments could not be
called public, since the site was open only to Internet users. His exact
comments were not disclosed.
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