"Turkish reform of speech law insufficient: watchdog
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Fri, 05/02/2008 - 18:48.
From Article 19 Global Campaign for Free Expression via IFEX, May 2:
Turkey: Article 301 Reforms Pallid—It Should Be Abolished
ARTICLE 19 condemns as wholly insufficient recent moves by the Turkish government to amend the infamous Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code. The article, which still criminalises denigration of the Turkish Nation, has been grossly abused in the past, including to convict leading Turkish writers such as Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, and leading journalist and editor Hrant Dink, who was murdered in January 2007."
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