Urgent Action: Save the Live of Kemal Alev!

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Subject: Urgent Action: Save the Live of Kemal Alev!
From: Press Agency Ozgurluk <ozgurluk at xs4all.nl>

URGENT APPEAL

SAVE THE LIFE OF KEMAL ALEV!

The French authorities want to send Kemal Alev into a certain death by
extraditing him to the Turkish murder regime. Kemal Alev was arrested
in Paris on February 16, 1995, suspected of being responsible for the
escape of Dursun Karatas, the chairman of the Revolutionary People's
Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) from Turkey. He was furthermore
accused of leading illegal activities in France. He spent two years in
custody. The trial against him lasted for three days and was held on
January 14-16, 1997. On February 6, 1997, he was sentenced to a time
in jail, equal to the time he already spent in custody. He was then
released on February 15. However, he was immediately arrested again,
waiting for his extradition to Turkey. His plane ticket has already
been booked for February 20. This factually means an extra punishment
in the form of a unofficial death sentence! As is widely known, the
murderers who govern Turkey know only one way to deal with the
political opposition: trying to crush the resistance against their
inhuman practices by means of murder, torture and
disappearances. Those who kill opponents and members of the opposition
press are set free, 15 year old children are sentenced to long prison
terms, based on "confessions", obtained after torture. These facts are
common knowledge. It is astounding that the French government, those
who rule the land of "Freedom, Equality and Fraternity" and who must
be very well aware of the abominable situation in Turkey, still
decides to extradite somebody to such a regime. It becomes even more
peculiar when one realises that this person possesses a permanent
permit to stay in a European country. Kemal Alev has such a permit to
stay in Austria already for 15 years, his family - wife and children -
possess the Austrian nationality.

Kemal Alev has become very known in Turkey because of the trial in
Paris. His picture has been in several Turkish papers. An uncle of his
was murdered by the Turkish military a couple of years ago, the
village he comes from does not exist anymore. This village was
confronted with the same fate as hundreds of other villages in Turkish
Kurdistan: the inhabitants were driven away with force, and the houses
were destroyed.

THE LIFE OF KEMAL ALEV IS SERIOUSLY IN DANGER IN CASE HE IS EXPELLED
TO TURKEY!

PROTEST HIS EXTRADITION, DEMAND THAT HE WILL BE EXPELLED TO AUSTRIA!

We call upon the public to send their protest messages and faxes to
the following addresses:

The Home Office:  Tel: 0033-1-40 07 60 60
                             Fax: 0033-1-43 59 89 50
The Justice Department: Tel: 0033-1-44 77 60 60
                                      Fax: 0033-1-44 77 70 60
Tribunale de Grande Instance de Paris:  Fax: 0033-1-44 32 78 54

Please do not forget the French Embassy and consulates in your own country!		


Please inform us about any action that you take.

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