Back in
the mid-year of 2017, 11 people were arrested and accused of 'terrorism'
crimes. Police raided a hotel on an island close to Istanbul, seized their
telephones and laptops and took them in a van.
Stefan
Simanowitz, who is the media supervisor for Amnesty International responsible
for Europe. As of late revealed in an article in Amnesty International that 11
human rights activists, including his associates Idil Eser and Taner Kılıç,
were among the ones who were caught close to Istanbul in the year 2017. Idil
Eser and Taner Kılıç were working as the executive and chair of Amnesty
International Turkey.
After
ten preliminary hearings and spending numerous months in prison, the 11
activists will, at last, face the judge as he articulates the final decision on
Wednesday. If sentenced, they will face 15 years in jail.
Stefan
Simanowit, for many years, worked as a freelance journalist, reporting from the
Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Asia for various publications. He has
consistently been a campaigner and worked for governments and political parties
around the globe.
The
prosecution cites that the meeting in the hotel where they were arrested had
been a "secret meeting to plan a Gezi-type uprising" to instigate
"disarray" in the nation. In actuality, it was a human rights
workshop, and it was not a secret.
However
then, it is no coincidence that when human rights are threatened in a nation,
the individuals who safeguard them come across ban or attacked. On occasion of
more prominent restraint, the activity of human rights activists turns out to
be increasingly crucial: and progressively dangerous.
The
activists were aware of the risk and had perceived how standing for human
rights was, in effect, progressively condemned. Furthermore, they realized that
safeguarding others' rights in Turkey may, might cost them their own. In 2017,
the indictment may have meant to silence them from sending a powerful message
to the rest of the globe.
Taner
Kılıç went through over 14 months in jail before got bail, and eight others
were imprisoned for very nearly four months each.
One
thing that has invigorated them is the support that they have gotten from
around the globe. Over 2,000,000 individuals have joined the call for justice
for the 11, including lawmakers and eminent entertainers like Whoopi Goldberg,
Ben Stiller, Catherine Deneuve, and numerous performers, for example, Peter
Gabriel, Angélique Kidjo, Ben Stiller, and Annie Lennox additionally bolstered.
According
to the US whistleblower Edward Snowden, "When there were tough times,
Amnesty stood up for me. Presently it's time for us to stand for them,"
The Amnesty International reported.
This
coming week the world will wait for the ruling by Istanbul central court.
Hoping that justice pronounces soon, quittance or sentence, we will wait and
watch.
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