To be internationalist is to be revolutionary. Only the revolutionaries can
sacrifice themselves for the world’s peoples without thinking of their own
interests.
To be internationalist means revolutionary politics. Only revolutionary
organisations, expecting nothing in return, for the freedom of the peoples of
the world, wherever in the world, support slogans of independence.
Today the most basic need of the peoples is, organizing and fighting
against imperialism."
Long live internationalism!
Let us unite in the Anti-Imperialist Front, in the 9th International Eyup
Bas Symposium for Unity of the Peoples Against Imperialist Aggression which will
be held on 8-9 September in İstanbul - Küçükarmutlu!
Dear comrades,
We had previously made a call for participation to the revolutionary
lawyers' trial on September 10 in Istanbul. Recently, the court decided not to
bring 15 of the imprisoned lawyers to the court room. The reason was that they
were in prisons outside Istanbul. Therefore, only Selçuk Kozağaçlı (who is also
the chairman of Progressive Lawyers' Association) and Yaprak Türkmen will be
brought to the court room. The other imprisoned lawyers are imposed to attend
the trial via SEGBİS (court-to-prison video conferencing) system.
The imprisoned lawyers express this situation as follows; "We often
remember Mussolini's words: 'How well I would govern the country if there were
no lawyers!' We think that is the reason for this situation..."
The revolutionary lawyers have been in prison for 11 months because of a
confessor-slanderer who gave statements with full of lies, on the
revolutionaries.
They have been imprisoned, because they are revolutionary lawyers, and also
they are the lawyers of the revolutionaries. And this kind of advocacy
discomforted AKP government, because the revolutionary lawyers always stood in
front of the government on every crime they committed against the people. AKP
fascism did not want any single resisting person or a dissident voice, but faced
with the revolutionary lawyers after every aggression against the people.
At last, the government "found a solution" by arresting them, while trying
to intimidate the revolutionaries and leave them without advocacy. But they also
couldn't succeed on this. Neither did the revolutionaries step back even once,
nor did the revolutionary lawyers leave them alone even once.
Thus, the revolutionary lawyers will not be brought to the court room in
their first trial 1 year after they have been arrested. They are imposed to make
their defense under and unlawful, arbitrary system called SEGBİS video
conferencing system. SEGBİS video conferencing system is improper for defense,
because in this way the communication between the prisoner and the court is
hindered. The video connection is oftenly broken, the words of prosecutor and
the judge are not clearly understood by the prisoner, and the defense of the
prisoner is not clearly understood by the court.
These are the technical aspects. But defense by SEGBİS video conferencing
system would still be an unlawful imposition even if there were no such issues.
Because the place where the defense is made should be the court room. With
SEGBİS system, the imprisoned revolutionary lawyers' right to defend themselves
is being seized.
For this reasons, we call you to protest Turkish Ministry of Justice by
sending mails & faxes. And we call you to the first trial of the imprisoned
revolutionary lawyers in İstanbul Bakırköy Courthouse on September 10, in order
not to leave them alone. We may not see 15 of them face to face on the court
room that day, nor may they see us. But even if they have been separated to
prisons in different cities, their and our hearts will beat together as one that
day.
Below is the e-mail and fax information:
Ministry of Justice:
Fax no: +90 312 419 33 70
E-mail: info@adalet.gov.tr
P.S. Attached are two photos. One of them is a SEGBİS court-to-prison video
link room in Sincan F-Type prison in Ankara.
The other one is a drawing by a revolutionary prisoner. He is showing how
irrational the SEGBİS system is, by drawing a prisoner and in a video link room,
and the court on the small screen.
With revolutionary greetings,
Anti-Imperialist Front / Turkey
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