GROUP CALLS FOR JUSTICE FOR IMPRISONED TURKISH-ARMENIAN WRITER
Monday, March 17th, 2014
Turkish Armenian writer and activist Sevan Nishanian
FRANKFURT, Germany–Sevan Nishanian — Armenian intellectual,
citizen of Turkey, civic activist, and prominent linguist — has been
imprisoned in Turkey since January 2, 2014.
The cruel and unreasonable nature of the punishment handed down for
this intellectual, the steady deterioration in the conditions of
incarceration, and the looming threat of new and escalating charges
and trials have prompted a group of civil society organizations’
representatives and activists to come together and form the
International Committee for Freedom and Justice for Sevan Nishanian.
The committee regards Nishanian’s prison sentence as a mockery of
justice and an unacceptable punitive measure that threatens the
people’s right to freedom of thought.
The committee regards Nishanyan’s imprisonment as a clear manifestation
of prejudice and malice. This blatant mistreatment is motivated by
his being a dissident intellectual who fights against the dubious
theories and official historiography generated by the mind-set (to
apply that term generously) of the Turkish state.
The International Committee for Freedom and Justice for Sevan Nishanian
calls on Turkish authorities to free Nishanian immediately and end the
campaign of intimidation, harassment, and cruelty directed against him.
The committee calls on international entities and human rights
organizations, and appeals to the wider court of public opinion, to
condemn and fight for the removal of the coercion and restrictions
faced by Sevan Nishanian, and to campaign for Sevan’s freedom.
The committee calls on all citizens of Turkey to stand by one of
their own, an intellectual who has been victimized by the state’s
relentless punitive machine, who has defended multiculturalism and
fought so that it could prevail and flourish, and who has been an
exemplar in this regard for his fellow countrymen and women.
This committee hereby declares that, in solidarity with others of
free and strong will, it shall organize numerous events focusing on
the Sevan Nishanian case in Turkey and abroad.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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