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February 21, 2021 09:09:58 am
Turkey’s Court of Cassation on Friday upheld the two-and-a-half-year prison sentence given to Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a human rights activist and MP belonging to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) on charges of “making propaganda for a terrorist organisation.”
In 2016, Gergerlioğlu raised alarm in parliament and on social media platforms about women being subjected to unlawful strip searches by the Uşak Police for “security reasons.” He was later accused by several members of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Uşak Police of being involved in terrorist activities. Gergerlioğlu was initially sentenced by the Kocaeli 2nd High Criminal Court in February 2018, and the decision was subsequently affirmed by the 3rd Criminal Department of the Istanbul Regional Court of Justice on appeal. Following this, an appeal was made before the Court of Cassation.
Social anthropologist facing nine years in prison escapes
An Iranian judge on 1 February overturned in absentia the appeal of a British-Iranian social anthropologist seeking to overturn a nine-year jail sentence.
But by then Kameel Ahmady, who had been let out of prison on temporary bail pending the appeal decision, had already escaped Iran on foot through the mountains, in snow up to 1.5 metres deep, slipping across the Western border. He eventually made it back to the United Kingdom.
“I am Kurdish by ethnicity and I know some of the routes, but it was very dangerous,” Ahmady told
The Guardian.
Ahmady was convicted in December 2020 of conducting “subversive” research work, according to the semi-official news agency Tasnim. He was accused of “cooperation with the hostile state of USA against the Islamic Republic of Iran” and sentenced to more than nine years in jail and a fine of more than £500,000 (US$684,000).