129a Trial Against Kurds In Frankfu

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From: kcc at magi.com (Kurdistan Committee of Canada)
Subject: 129a Trial Against Kurds In Frankfurt

129a Trial Against Kurds In Frankfurt

	On September 25, 1995, a trial against 3 Kurdish defendants will 
open at the State Supreme Court in Frankfurt, Germany with the aim of 
proving that one part of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) is a 
"terrorist organization". By using crown witnesses, the state prosecutor 
hopes to prove that the accused, in their roles as party functionaries or 
as the heads of a Kurdish association in Frankfurt, were responsible for 
criminal acts and thus constituted a "terrorist organization". According 
to the Working Group Against The Kurd Trial (Arbeitskreis gegen den 
Kurdenprozess): "What is really being put on trial is the right of the 
Kurdish people to engage in political and public activity." The Working 
Group has issued a leaflet calling on people to visit this trial and to 
protest against it.

(Translated from Kurdistan Rundbrief 18/95)