Motion
- Motion title
- Leyla Zana
- Session
- 2009-2010
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 30 May 2010
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- 35
- Motion text
Congress notes the recent information that Kurdish politician and human rights activist, Leyla Zana, has been sentenced to a further three years imprisonment by the Diyarbakir Criminal Court. Her 'crime' was to issue a plea for a peaceful solution to the 30-year long Kurdish conflict.
Today Leyla faces in total 13 years imprisonment as a result of other charges for allegedly supporting 'terrorism' in previous speeches.
On 24 December her principal lawyer, Muharrem Erbey, was also arrested and is detained in a D-type prison in Diyabakir.
Congress resolves:
To pressurise the British government to urgently protest in writing to the Prime Minister of Turkey, the Turkish Minister of Justice, and to the Turkish Ambassador to the UK.
To write to the European Court of Human Rights on the grounds that Turkey has not fulfilled the criteria to be eligible for accession to the European Union.
- Proposing body
- Women members' standing committee (WMSC)
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Strategy and finance committee (SFC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2010/C/05-30/049/35