Materials pertaining to the case filed by Sedat Aslantaş against the Republic of Turkey with the European Commission of Human Rights (application number 25658/94; referred to internally within the Kurdish Litigation Project as Case 109 and assigned to Bill Bowring as lead).
Sedat Aslantaş was a lawyer who served as Deputy Secretary General of the Human Rights Association in Turkey. In these roles, Aslantaş undertook numerous civil liberties and human rights cases, including many in collaboration with the Kurdish Litigation Project that are present in this collection. On 27 May 1993, a press statement signed by Aslantaş and other members of the Democracy Platform human rights advocacy group was issued in Diyarbakır. The release strongly condemned killings, village burning, and evacuations carried out by state forces. As a result of the press release, Aslantaş and other members of the Democracy Platform were charged with violating Article 8 of the Turkish Anti-Terror Law, which prohibited written and spoken propaganda, meetings, assemblies and demonstrations aimed at undermining the territorial integrity of the Republic or the indivisible unity of the nation. Aslantaş also received telephoned threats telling him to give up his activities or be killed, and was continually followed by the police. As a result, Aslantaş went into hiding at the end of 1993, and made no appearance at a hearing of the case against the other Democracy Platform members held in Diyarbakır State Security court on 13 April 1994. On 12 May 1994, Aslantaş was arrested in Ankara and detained for 25 days. On 1 December 1994, Aslantaş was sentenced to 3 years’ imprisonment and fined 150 Turkish lira because of a speech made at the 1992 Human Rights Association General Conference. Aslantaş was unable to attend the 1 December 1994 hearing as he was at another hearing outside Ankara. On 5 December 1994 while representing a client at Ankara State Security Court, Aslantaş was refused entry to the courtroom and arrested. Aslantaş remained in custody until 3 November 1995, when the sentence was converted to a fine of 101,825,000 lira.
On 1 March 1999, the Commission issued a report unanimously ruling that Aslantaş had been violated under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. On 2 October 2000, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe awarded Aslantaş £24,024.44 in pecuniary damages, 30,000 French francs in non-pecuniary damages, and £7,000 in legal fees and costs.
Materials pertaining to the case filed by Sedat Aslantaş against the Republic of Turkey with the European Commission of Human Rights (application number 25658/94; referred to internally within the Kurdish Litigation Project as Case 109 and assigned to Bill Bowring as lead), including the submitted application and appendices, observations of the Turkish Government on the application (closed until 11 November 2073), correspondence from Bill Bowring and Kevin Boyle to the Commission and the Kurdish Human Rights Project, and the report of the Commssion on the case (closed until 1 November 2073).
Sedat Aslantaş was a lawyer who served as Deputy Secretary General of the Human Rights Association in Turkey. In these roles, Aslantaş undertook numerous civil liberties and human rights cases, including many in collaboration with the Kurdish Litigation Project that are present in this collection. On 27 May 1993, a press statement signed by Aslantaş and other members of the Democracy Platform human rights advocacy group was issued in Diyarbakır. The release strongly condemned killings, village burning, and evacuations carried out by state forces. As a result of the press release, Aslantaş and other members of the Democracy Platform were charged with violating Article 8 of the Turkish Anti-Terror Law, which prohibited written and spoken propaganda, meetings, assemblies and demonstrations aimed at undermining the territorial integrity of the Republic or the indivisible unity of the nation. Aslantaş also received telephoned threats telling him to give up his activities or be killed, and was continually followed by the police. As a result, Aslantaş went into hiding at the end of 1993, and made no appearance at a hearing of the case against the other Democracy Platform members held in Diyarbakır State Security court on 13 April 1994. On 12 May 1994, Aslantaş was arrested in Ankara and detained for 25 days. On 1 December 1994, Aslantaş was sentenced to 3 years’ imprisonment and fined 150 Turkish lira because of a speech made at the 1992 Human Rights Association General Conference. Aslantaş was unable to attend the 1 December 1994 hearing as he was at another hearing outside Ankara. On 5 December 1994 while representing a client at Ankara State Security Court, Aslantaş was refused entry to the courtroom and arrested. Aslantaş remained in custody until 3 November 1995, when the sentence was converted to a fine of 101,825,000 lira.
On 1 March 1999, the Commission issued a report unanimously ruling that Aslantaş had been violated under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. On 2 October 2000, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe awarded Aslantaş £24,024.44 in pecuniary damages, 30,000 French francs in non-pecuniary damages, and £7,000 in legal fees and costs.
Materials from the main casefile are located at A44/43/1/9.
Press cutting from [ ] with two articles entitled 'I see no benefit in the UK link says ex-Unionist' and 'Security policy attacked'; reporting on the views of former Unionist Party member Esmond Thompson, and those of SDLP member Michael Canavan on the attempt to achieve the primacy of the police in security matters (authors not named).
File from conference entitled "Security and Protection for Human Rights Defenders", held at London Metropolitan University. Kevin Boyle was participant and panel chair at this conference. Includes conference schedule and programme; text of paper by Kevin Boyle with MS annotation by Boyle; speaker biographies and details, various supporting documents such as reports and statements; booklet by Peace Brigade International; reports of working group sessions and other documents.
Typescript draft of Section Two, 1973-1986 of ‘The Irish Independent: A History’.
Section of The Sunday Times mostly dedicated to the elections and the new Prime Minister, Tony Blair.
English and Turkish copies of Section 8 of Turkey's Penal Adjudication and Practice Law, which was claimed to have been violated as part of the Government's persecution of Özgür Gündem.
Bound copy of an excerpt authored by archaeologist Rónán Swan from an environmental impact statement pertaining to Kilsaran Concrete Ltd.'s proposed quarry at Ballykane Hill, Kilrainy, County Kildare. Swan's study revealed a ring barrow on the summit of Ballykane Hill that would require excavation.
Files of documents referring to the Section 31 media ban in Ireland which relates to a development during the Troubles in Northern Ireland where Sinn Féin and IRA members, under Section 31 of the Broadcasting Authority Act, were forbidden to be broadcast in the media. This rule was brought in by Fianna Fáil Minister for Posts and Telegraphs Gerry Collins in 1971 and strengthened by Labour's Conor Cruise O'Brien in 1977.
Contact sheet and corresponding negative sheet containing 15 images.
Some under-exposed photographs of Bairbre as a teenager, taken in side-profile. Some photographs of scenery, two burial mounds next to each other, rugged landscape scenes.
Photographs taken at a protest against Section 31 of the Broadcasting Act, Bob Quinn is seated at the centre of this group, which also includes Seosamh Ó Cuaig, and three others.