Motion
- Motion title
- Call for solidarity with Leyla Zana
- Session
- 2008-2009
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 27 May 2009
- Status
- Passed unanimously
- Motion
- L1
- Motion text
Congress notes that:
– Leyla Zana, Sakharov Laureate and the first Kurdish woman elected to the Turkish Parliament, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1991 because she spoke Kurdish in the Turkish Parliament.
-she is likely to be sentenced to a further 10 years in prison on June 2nd 2009 for the 'crime' of speaking at a meeting called by the Kurdish Society at SOAS in May 2008
Congress resolves:
– to instruct Executive to mount a campaign to secure the release of Leyla Zana. This includes:
Raising the issue with other trade unions
Calling on MPs and MEPs to protest to the Turkish government
Calling on the Principal of SOAS and the Vice Chancellor of London University to defend the rights of academic freedom and to communicate this in the strongest terms to the Turkish Embassy
Participating in the newly formed solidarity campaign
- Proposing body
- National executive committee (NEC)
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Strategy and finance committee (SFC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2009/C/05-27/017/L1