File 25 - Ramazan Danış

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Materials pertaining to the application filed by Ramazan Danış on 26 April 1994 against the Republic of Turkey with the European Commission of Human Rights (application number 24564/94, referred to internally within the Kurdish Litigation Project as Case 89 and assigned to Tim Otty as lead) regarding his conviction on grounds of disseminating separatist propaganda. Danış was accused of being part of a political demonstration at Dicle University on 27 November 1991, whereupon he was identified by police officers as having taken part in the display of a banner promoting the political branch of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party). Danış denied taking part in the demonstrations and stated that he was being harassed because he was a member of the Medical Faculty Student Association. On 13 November 1992, Danış was found guilty and sentenced to 20 months’ imprisonment. All of his subsequent appeals over the course of 1993 were denied. On 9 April 1997, the Commission ruled that the application was submitted beyond the six-month time limit (the final court decision having come on 21 June 1993 and the notice of application having come on 26 April 1994) and unanimously declared the application inadmissible.