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--------- Forwarded from : tkomitee at newsdesk.aps.nl (Turkije Komitee) ----------

-------- Forwarded from : U.ROTERMUND at CL-HH.comlink.de (Ute Rotermund) ---------

Hi ***** and ****!

I think you've been waiting for my first letter for a very long time  
already.
Of course, one of the reasons is that we are involved into a whole pack of  
work these days. At the other hand there is nothing new about the  
prisoners we're supporting. Still more kind of social work - costs time  
(and, unfortunately, money),  causing several nervous breakdowns, most of  
the time but just boring: talking with advocates, journalists, subscribing  
newspapers, ordering, asking for approval and delivering books, tapes and  
so on; arranging a concert of Haco and a Kurdish festival in Bremen and  
selling books both to earn some money and to do some PR ...

The three prisoners we are supporting are quite well; especially the two  
women are really powerful and never miss to pull the legs of the officers  
of BKA (Bundeskriminalamt) and their official  translators. Despite the  
short visiting time (only 2 hours per month are allowed) they sometimes  
even try to explain them the necessity of their struggle  and the role of  
Germany in the Turkish war against Kurds. It's just unbelievable: they  
really didnt lose their sense of humour, not to talk of their strength   
(Last month Azime said: "In a way it is not us who are isolated; it's  
them" - shaking the head in direction of the BKA man- "who are. No one is  
able to cut our connections to Kurdish people and the Kurdish  liberation  
movement. But who are they? Whom do they have?...")
Yeah, to talk with them is a pleasing part of our work.

Yet much is to be done in the field of finding and connecting  several  
groups who are supporting the  other 129a prisoners (and - I'd be glad if  
it could work out - to connect the several advocates: you know, they never  
have time and are so nervous and unconcentrated). Meetings of some  
solidarity groups are taking place now regularily and are supposed to  
become a good working net of solidarity and change of informations. Still  
we are lacking of people, but the project seems to develope. For the next  
time the Kurdistan InformationsStelle (KIS) takes up the work of  
collecting and spreading all informations inside the net. I told them who  
you are and gave them your adress. Hope they'll send you fine and new
material!

But first I'll give you a short report of what happended  during the last  
weeks here in Germany:
During the last weeks - might be you've read it already in newspapers -  
there were lots of campaigns against Kurdish organisations: police raids,  
arrestings, controllings and registrations of identity, damage of Kurdish  
public utilities, confiscations of material and so on.
        In Frankfurt a woman was arrested and is going to be accused in  
sense of 129a. Three men had also been arrested at the airport of  
Frankfurt, but they were set free already.
        One man was arrested in Berlin after a raid in the Kurdistan  
Centre and is now charged to be the "head of the terrorist section inside  
PKK in Germany".
        On 15th of October the police  made a raid in the Kurdish parents   
association in Munih. 19 people had been arrested, 3 of them they kept: a  
man and a woman are accused to have "offended against the association law"  
(both proceedings are still in danger of turning into 129a), one man is  
charged on base of 129a. During the raid police forced a 9 years old girl  
to undress; children as well as adults had been controlled and registered,  
the equipment was partially damaged...
        Near Gie_en 177 (!!!) Kurds had been arrested. In Ulm a Kurdish  
meeting was broken up; about 80 persons have been controlled and  
registered, among them lots of children; might be, some of the adults were  
arrested, too. I still don't know whether some of them all and if, then  
how many are still kept and on what base they are accused - we are trying  
to get new informations about that.
        In Stuttgart the second process on base of 129a has already  
started: against a 29 years old woman supposed to have been (inside the  
"terrorist section of PKK in Germany") responsible for Munih, a 28 years  
old man supposed to have been responsible for Ulm, the other man (45 years  
old) accused having been responsible for Stuttgart. Two people are  
supposed to support them there in Stuttgart - still we don't know who they  
are and how it is going. Hope there's gonna be something new about that  
next days.

The two processes which have already started - in Frankfurt and in  
Stuttgart - are the most important ones, for us as well. The sentencees of  
the first processes are easy to be taken over by  the judges of the other  
processes; and if puclic campaign runs out negative over there, the press  
has already formed their (pre-)judgement and for shure won't change it in  
a way we liked it.

So altogether there must be about 20 or more Kurdish 129a-detainees by  
now, and the number is likely to be increasing next weeks...


One of the very important points about our publicity work is inviting  
people to observe the processes. The observers  shouldn't be only German  
solidarity  groups, but prominent people, personalities of public life,  
advocates and, of course, people from other countries as well. You can  
interpret the last sentence as an invitation as well - it would be great  
if you'd support us this way! Spreading such informations in Netherlands  
would also be helpful.

So, I think that's enough for tonight. Hope you can understand my clumsy  
English. And hope you understand German, 'cause I think the further  
informations you're gonna get from KIS will be in German.

                        So then, ROJBAS!
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