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RSS FeedsAhmet Altan: I´m free but my friends still languish in Turkish jails | Ahmet Altan
(The Guardian Turkey)

 
 

9 november 2019 20:41:27

 
Ahmet Altan: I´m free but my friends still languish in Turkish jails | Ahmet Altan
(The Guardian Turkey)
 


The novelist reflects on a judiciary that ignores the rights of those it imprisonsNothing is scarier than an encounter with the horrifying power of someone who holds your fate in his hands. That person can kill you, lock you up, send you into exile or let you go free. Regardless of the difference in outcome, to be locked up or released by such an authority is equally devastating. You don´t have a say in what happens. People with such authority usually wear a robe and sit on a dais. They are called judges. You can forgive the wielding of such superhuman powers if they are used righteously. What happens, then, if the authority in question doesn´t care about righteousness?In A Farewell to Arms there is a scene where Hemingway describes a trial of soldiers by military judges that takes place in a cave at the time of defeat for the Italian army. Confident that their decisions will never affect their own destiny, the judges nonchalantly condemn people to death, then put on their caps and salute. They turn people over to the execution squad. During my long incarceration, I faced judges on many occasions. They didn´t even listen to what I said. I laid out the proofs of my innocence and they kept repeating the same accusations. First, they sentenced me to life without parole, then they changed my sentence to 10 and a half years and I was released. I write this as I await the decision a judge will make on the appeal of the prosecutor who objected to my release - they may send me back to prison.As a prisoner, you are the victim of injustice; once you leave, you become an accomplice Continue reading...


 
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