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MelbuFrahma4 08/29/20 11:43:51 PM #1: |
https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/ebru-timtik-dies-after-238-day-hunger-strike/
A Kurdish-Turkish human rights lawyer has died after a 238-day hunger strike demanding a fair trial for herself and others. Ebru Timtik, 42, was one of a group of 18 lawyers known for representing clients critical of the Turkish government who were arrested in September 2017. Timtik weighed only 65 pounds when she died in the hospital, where she and her colleague Aytac Unsal were transferred in July after going on hunger strike in Istanbuls Silivri prison, Deutsche-Welle reported Friday. Mourners who got near a cemetery where Timtik was being buried were tear-gassed by police, according to news reports. Hospital staffers put Timtik under pressure to end her fast, waking her to offer her food and encouraging her to take medicine. Last October, a Turkish appeals court had upheld lengthy jail terms imposed on the 18 lawyers, Timtik included, who face multiple charges over alleged links to an outlawed Marxist organization. Initially detained in September 2018, Timtik was sentenced to 13 years and six months jail. Unsal was sentenced to more than 10 years. In February, Timtik and Unsal started hunger strikes inside Silivri, consuming only liquids and vitamins. --- "We'll never see Day-Lewis and Kubrick, or Kurosawa and Eastwood, but we have seen Bale and Nolan, a cinematic dream pairing come to life!" ... Copied to Clipboard!
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