Today the
@Europarl_EN
debates the human rights situation in Turkey and the case of Selahattin Demirtaş, Osman Kavala and other political prisoners including our friend and fellow young green activist Cihan Erdal.
We ask for their immediate release!
@freecihanerdal
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Cihan was arrested unlawfully by the Turkish authorities on September 25th, 2020. He has been indicted as part of so-called the “Kobane case”, which calls for 38 counts of life sentences. The evidence provided against him are two ‘retweets’ of HDP’s official statements from 2014.
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Cihan Erdal is a peaceful human rights activist and an academic.
It is beyond absurdity that he is facing an indictment calling for 38 counts of aggravated life sentence based on the evidence of two tweets, while he was only trying to make Turkey a better place.
@freecihanerdal
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Political persecution in Turkey and harassment of its students, human rights defenders, activists, academics, journalists and opposition politicians must stop.
Turkey is prosecuting them not for what they have done but for what they represent. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💜✌️✊
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We ask Turkey to follow the
@ECHR_CEDH
orders to immediately release Demirtaş and Kavala and other political prisoners, including Cihan Erdal❗️
Read
@GreensEFA
,
@europeangreens
and
@FYEG
statement ⤵️
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