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38 MPs present personal guarantees for changing court’s decision to remand ex-President Kocharyan into custody

August 1, 2018 By administrator

38 MPs have filed personal guarantees for changing the court’s decision to remand 2nd President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan into custody, Viktor Soghomonyan – head of the 2nd President’s Office, told Armenpress, adding that this list is not final yet, the petition continues.

“Lawmakers from different factions participated in the petition. Later I will release the list, it’s not a secret list, the petition still is underway, I think several MPs will also join the list”, Soghomonyan said, adding that Speaker of the Parliament Ara Babloyan and Vice Speakers Arpine Hovhannisyan and Eduard Sharmazanov have also signed the form.

Asked whether they have appealed the court ruling to remand Kocharyan into custody to the Court of Appeal, Viktor Soghomonyan said they haven’t submitted the appeal yet, but the attorneys will submit it today.

2nd President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan has been charged on July 26 over the 2008 March 1 case. He has been remanded into custody.

 

Filed Under: News Tagged With: custody, ex-President, Kocharyan

MP Tsarukyan’s chief bodyguard remanded in custody

July 6, 2018 By administrator

Eduard Babayan, chief bodyguard of president of the Armenian National Olympic Committee, leader of the Prosperous Armenia party, MP Gagik Tsarukyan, has been charged for beating Vyacheslav Harutyunyan, causing severe damage to his life, the Special Investigative Service told Armenpress.

The special investigative service filed a motion to a court requesting to remand Babayan in custody. The motion was approved.

Investigation continues.

On July 2, at 21:30, the Police were notified that a 50-year-old man has been transported to hospital. Some injuries have been reported. The Police officers found out that the man received the injuries, according to preliminary data, at the administrative building of the Armenian National Olympic Committee. It was revealed that the victim was hit by Tsarukyan’s chief bodyguard Eduard Babayan and several other persons.

The victim said his son, who is a citizen of Russia, is a boxer, a world champion. Gagik Tsarukyan promised awards for the victories, but after receiving Armenia’s citizenship his son is wanted with charges of avoiding military service.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: custody, Eduard Babayan

Terrorist State of Turkey takes editor Murat Sabuncu of opposition newspaper ‘Cumhuriyet’ into custody

October 31, 2016 By administrator

murat-sabuncuTurkish police have detained the editor-in-chief of the opposition newspaper “Cumhuriyet” following a series of raids. The government launched a wide-reaching crackdown on its critics in the wake of a July coup attempt.

The “Cumhuriyet” newspaper said on Monday that its editor, Murat Sabuncu, was detained along with columnist Guray Oz after raids on their homes.

The paper also said police were searching for the head of its executive board, Akin Atalay. In total, 13 arrest warrants were issued for journalists and executives from the daily, according to CNN Turk.

Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency said Sabuncu was being held as part of “an investigation,” without providing details.

The detentions come as opposition parties and human rights groups allege that Turkey is using a state of emergency to clamp down on all dissenting voices. The state of emergency was introduced after a failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by a rogue section of the military in July. Since then, more than 100 media outlets have been shut down and dozens of journalists detained as part of a massive crackdown on opposition elements.

Opposition targeted

Ankara accuses those targeted of being affiliated with US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom it blames for the attempted putsch. Gulen has denied any involvement.

In a statement, the government said the operation against Cumhuriyet was launched over its alleged “activities on behalf of” the Gulen movement and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

“Cumhuriyet”‘s former editor-in-chef Can Dundar was sentenced to five years in prison earlier this year for revealing state secrets after publishing reports about alleged Turkish arms shipments to Syrian rebels. Dundar, who now lives in Germany, was sentenced along with the paper’s Ankara correspendent, Erdem Gul.

The left-leaning secular publication, one of Turkey’s oldest newspapers, is often highly critical of the ruling conservative Justice and Development Party (AKP). It was awarded this year’s Right Livelihood Award.

rc,nm/tj (AFP, AP, dpa)

 

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Cumhuriyet, custody, editor, Murat Sabuncu, Turkey

Meet Turkish Journalist Who Lost Custody Of Kids Over Critical Reporting

May 25, 2016 By administrator

Photo: Arzu Yildiz’s Twitter account.

Photo: Arzu Yildiz’s Twitter account.

By Mahir Zeynalov

Journalist/Columnist, Today’s Zaman/Al Arabiya

Relentless crackdown on journalists and media outlets in Turkey is not news. But the censorship has taken a whole new level last week when a Turkish court stripped a prominent journalist of legal rights over her two children for publishing a video about the Syria arms delivery.

Arzu Yildiz, an unwavering journalist mostly reporting about court battles and a fierce critic of the government, was also given a 20-month prison sentence for publishing the video on YouTube last year. The video is a two-hour long court defense of a prosecutor who intercepted a truck in southern Turkey full of arms heading toward a Syrian territory held by Ahrar al-Sham, an Islamist extremist group.

From Supporter To Critic

Yildiz, a mother of two, was actually a staunch supporter of the government back when tens of thousands of people thronged streets across Turkey to protest against then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan‘s increasingly authoritarian rule in the summer of 2013. She later joined Turkiye, a government mouthpiece paper.

In Turkiye, she broke a story about two senior female administrators within the ruling AKP suspected of spying for Iran. The story led to an investigation and several arrests. But the authorities later sued the newspaper over the story. Yildiz wrote a number of high-profile stories during her time in Turkiye, but her editors refused to publish most of them for being too critical of the authorities. A growing discord over the newspaper’s editorial line forced her to resign.

Her departure from Turkiye coincided with a corruption scandal involving Erdogan and his inner circle as well as a raucous election campaign viewed as the one of the most heated and divisive political wrangling.


Stepping Into Minefield

In a Wednesday night in January 2014, Yildiz published a bombshell story on T24, a news portal she joined after quitting Turkiye. Initially it was several paragraphs long, but it was enough to cause an uproar in the public. She reported that prosecutors from Adana, a southern Turkish city, intercepted trucks carrying arms into Syria. She knew that she was stepping into a minefield, because publicly debating or questioning this issue was off-limits.

That story sparked such an outrage from the country’s top leadership that Erdogan made it his life’s mission to cover up the scandal. The arms-filled trucks, allegedly administered by the Turkish spy agency, justified rumors that Turkey helped fostered radical groups in Syria and ultimately the ISIS. Erdogan publicly derided prosecutors and law enforcement who participated in an operation to halt the trucks, calling them “traitors” and accusing them of “spying.”

The prosecutors were later locked up. They still languish in jails, without any prospect of being released anytime soon.

Erdogan and then-President Abdullah Gul repeatedly asserted that the trucks were carrying humanitarian aid to Syrian civilians, but the content of the trucks were “state secrets.” The government, however, could not keep its narrative consistent. Senior AKP official Yasin Aktay acknowledged that the trucks were heading to Syrian rebels. I asked Erdogan’s spokesman Ibrahim Kalin during his visit to Washington last year if this was true. He said he had no idea why that official made such a remark and that the trucks were only carrying humanitarian relief.

But Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu brought into the surface another narrative, claiming that it was carrying arms to Turkmen rebels who were besieged by forces loyal to the Syrian regime. Turkmens fired back: We did not receive any weapons.

While the story slowly ebbed away over the time, the Cumhuriyet daily published photos and footage of medical supplies and arms in the Syria-bound trucks. The revelations infuriated Erdogan. He vowed that Can Dundar, the newspaper’s top editor, “will pay a heavy price” over the story. Journalist Dundar was locked up for three months, survived an assassination attempt and sentenced to five years in prison. Erdogan displayed little flexibility in tolerating stories linked to the Syrian arms delivery.

Reporting At a Price

Joining efforts with other journalists who had recently lost their jobs due to the government pressure, Arzu Yildiz co-founded a web-site called grihat, where she continued her critical and exclusive reporting. One of these reporting included the publication of a video of Prosecutor Ozcan Sisman‘s court defense. The video ricocheted across the social media, revealing details of how Turkish public officials aided radical groups in Syria as well as helped terrorists in bombing attacks such as in Reyhanli and Cilvegozu.

He made clear in his defense that he acted out of fear that these arms could end up in the hands of terrorists and that he did not know that the trucks were administrated by the spy agency, whose agents have an immunity to a prosecution.

Obtaining or spreading the footage of the court defense is illegal in Turkey, but the court preferred to punish the journalist who published it, not the one who leaked it. Turkey recently made it a crime to publish any classified document linked to the spy agency, a law that was widely criticized by global rights groups.

As Arzu Yildiz pleaded not guilty in the court, she told the judge that her publication of the video was a pure journalistic activity and that people deserve to know details of such a high-profile case.

At a time when even veteran Turkish journalists are cowed into submission, Yildiz’s brave reporting came with a price. She lost her freedom, but also her children. It is a chilling reminder to other journalists of what they may expect if they go down a similar path. Erdogan did not only threaten Can Dundar, but also other reporters who may choose to report on this sensitive matter.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Critical, custody, Journalist, Kids, lost, over, reporting, Turkish

Female Turkish journo loses custody of children after leaking video from Syria arms smuggling trial

May 18, 2016 By administrator

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Arzu Yıldız © Twitter

Journalist Arzu Yildiz was sentenced to 20 months in jail and lost her parental rights after exposing a video related to a weapons-smuggling scandal denied by the Turkish government, in what her lawyer said was “an act of revenge” by Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

“Nobody can take my children away from me… not even the Sultan himself, let alone the court,” Yildiz told Can Erzincan TV, outside the court in the southern city of Mersin.

The journalist’s sentence is related to a 2014 incident in which prosecutors uncovered trucks belonging to MIT, Turkey’s national security agency, smuggling weapons for rebels across the border to Syria. President Erdogan has insisted that the vehicles were carrying humanitarian aid and accused the prosecutors of “treason and espionage,” as well as of being agents of his US-based nemesis Fethullah Gulen.

The prosecutors were arrested and put on trial before a closed court, before being sentenced to prison terms. Yildiz obtained video of the proceedings, however, and posted the prosecutors’ testimonies, which contradicted the government’s claims, on YouTube. She was later charged with breaching court confidentiality.

She has insisted throughout that she was not the only one to publish the videos and objects to the jailing of the prosecutors.

“I thank everyone for their messages and support. I have no worries. I don’t care about whatever punishment they give me. I’m just doing my job,” Yildiz tweeted after Wednesday’s ruling.

While her two children will not be physically taken away, Yildiz will have no legal authority to make any decisions on their behalf for at least the next two years.

“This was an act of revenge,” her lawyer, Alpdeger Tanriverdi, told Reuters. “There are many cases in which the court does not execute this article of the penal code. They didn’t have to do it.”

source: RT

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: arm, children, custody, Female, journo, leak, loses, smuggling, Syrian, Turkish

Rome’s Police spokesman: Saudi embassy helped Erdoğan’s son to escape the police custody; using a forged Saudi passport and disguised as an Arab diplomat

March 12, 2016 By administrator

Bilal Erdoğan

Bilal Erdoğan

According to Rai News 24, Italian police spokesman Lt. Colonel Domenico Grimaldi accused the Saudi legation in Rome of facilitating the escape of Bilal Erdoğan who was detained for money laundering allegations. Bilal Erdoğan’s short detention in Rome and later escape are the latest in a series of scandals hitting President Erdoğan’s family.

“Mafia activities continue to plague our judicial system and the Polizia di Stato is blamed for this humiliating security lapse in Rome airport. We also found that a notorious mafia gang active in Calabria and Sicily was hired by members in the Saudi embassy and they managed to release Mr.  Erdoğan from Regina Coeli Prison,” police spokesman Lt. Colonel Grimaldi told AFP.

They moved Bilal Erdoğan to Excelsior Hotel, added Lt. Colonel Grimaldi, and Erdoğan was caught on cameras leaving the Hotel, donned traditional Arab dress and adroitly disguised as a Saudi diplomat; Bilal passed the security check holding a fake Saudi diplomatic passport and we believe, he couldn’t have escaped without the connivance of a number of police officers in Leonardo da Vinci Airport.

Saudi and Turkish regimes try to expand their intelligence cooperation and harmonize efforts to overthrow the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Source: AWD News.com

Filed Under: News Tagged With: custody, Erdoğan’s son, escape, police, Rome, saudi

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