FURTHER HEARINGS IN THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN STRASBOURG
Press Release: 6 July 1996
On the 3rd of July 1995 the European Commission of Human Rights held hearings
on the merits of the above applications.
These cases were declared Admissible in October 1994 and Investigation Hearings took place in Cizre and Diyarbakir and Ankara in March and April 1995. See Press Releases of 20/10/94, 22/10/95 and 4/5/95.
The articles of the Convention invoked by the applicants include violations of:
Article 3: (the prohibition of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment),
Article 5: (the right to liberty and security of the
person)
Article 6: (the implied right of access to court)
Article 8: (the right to respect of privacy and family
life in the home)
Article 13: ( the right to effective national remedies
for Convention breaches)
Article 14: (freedom from discrimination)
Article 18: (prohibition on using authorized Convention
restrictions for ulterior purposes).
Article 1 of Protocol 1 to the Convention (the right to property).
In the hearings in Strasbourg the parties presented their conclusions on the
merits, the applicants maintaining their allegations but the government refuting
them.
The application of CAGIRGE was adjourned pending the attempts to reach a friendly settlement in this case. This application concerns an explosion caused by a device which hit the applicant's house killing several members of his family and injuring others.
The individual applicants were helped to take their grievances to Strasbourg by the Human Rights Association of Turkey and the Kurdish Human Rights Project in London. The number of KHRP assisted applications declared Admissible by the European Commission of Human Rights has now reached 37 in total. Investigation Hearings in a number of these cases are due to take place in Ankara from the 10th to the14th of July 1995.
Altogether, the KHRP has assisted over 250 individuals
to bring their complaints before the Commission. The complaints raise allegations
of torture, disappearances, extra-judicial killings, the destruction and forced
evacuation of villages, rape and the persecution of journalism and MPs.
Please e-mail KHRP at khrp@khrp.org, to be placed on our Press Release mailing list.
For further information please contact: Kerim Yildiz, Executive Director / Fiona McKay, Deputy Director / Sally Eberhardt, Public Relations Officer Kurdish Human Rights Project on the address below.
