Ask Your Representative to Help Free Leyla Zana
"Leyla Zana was arrested for peaceful expression of her views. Her trial in Turkey fell deplorably short of international standards for fairness. Her conviction has been condemned by the European Parliament, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Amnesty International, and human rights activists worldwide.
Now serving a 15-year prison sentence. ...
Leyla Zana was the first Kurdish woman elected to the Turkish Parliament. The Turkish government does not recognize Kurds as an ethnic minority and has long suppressed the Kurdish ethno-lingual culture as a threat to national unity. At her inauguration as a member of parliament in 1991, Leyla Zana took the oath of loyalty in Turkish, as required by law, and then added in Kurdish, "I shall struggle so that the Kurdish and Turkish people may live peacefully together in a democratic framework." Members of parliament responded with cries of "Separatist," "Traitor," and "Arrest her." "
She was arrested once her pol. immunity was up, and the trial was frickin' crap, wasn't fair *in* the least. Go. Click. Help save the world. ^_^
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