Examples

• In a communication sent on 19 October 2000, the Special Rapporteur requested further information about cases of intimidation and harassment against journalists which had been brought to his attention, in particular: an assault by the police against Unal Cetiner, a cameraman for Flash TV on 5 August 2000 while he was covering a demonstration in Istanbul; the beating, short detention and interrogation of Jülide Kaliç, a reporter with Yeni Evrensel, on 17 August 2000; the arrest and brief detention of Ergüren Top, a journalist with Yeni Gündem, on 27 August 2000, in connection with his coverage of a press conference by relatives of political prisoners; the brief detention of Cengiz Kapman and Meral Kocamis, who photographed Ergüren Top being arrested; the imprisonment of Esber Yagmurdereli, a human rights lawyer and playwright, rearrested on 1 June 1998 after he had been partially amnestied and released in November 1997 on health grounds.
  وفي 4 تموز/يوليه 2000 وجه المقرر الخاص إلى الحكومة نداءً عاجلاً مشتركاً مع المقرر الخاص المعني بالتعذيب والمقرر الخاص المعني بحالة حقوق الإنسان في السودان بشأن سلسلة اعتقالات وأعمال عنف يزعم أن طلاباً تعرضوا لها في أعقاب حلقة دراسية بعنوان "الأزمة الراهنة في السودان وآفاق المستقبل" عقدت في جامعة سنار في 18 حزيران/يونيه 2000.
• In addition, the Special Rapporteur addressed the suspension of newspapers and radio stations by the authorities brought to his attention: the seizing of Roja Teze on 24 June 2000 in connection with two articles referring to “Kurdistan” and the “Kurdish national movement”; the 90-day suspension by the Audio-visual Council of Turkey (RTÜK) of Umut Radio on 27 July 2000 for “inciting to violence, terror and ethnic discrimination” by broadcasting a song by the extreme-left group, Cemo; the one-year suspension by the RTÜK of Özgür Radyo on 23 August 2000 for broadcasting a song by the extreme-left group, Kizilrmak; the seizing of Yeni Gündem on 31 August 2000 by the Security Court of the State of Istanbul for publishing an article on the “Kurdish revolution”; the 10-day suspension of Yeni Evrensel on 6 October 2000 following publication of an article entitled “The Kurdish issue and the fight for equal rights”, and the sentencing of its editor-in-chief, Tuncay Seyman, to a fine.
  ويقال إن جنوداً يرتدون لباساً رسمياً أطلقوا النار على الناس خلال الحلقة الدراسية مما أدى إلى مقتل طالب اسمه مرغامي محمود النرمان وإصابة عدة طلاب آخرين بجروح منهم صلاح هولي وأبو شيبه.