inminds
9 July 2018
Ebru Ozkan has not been allowed to speak to her family since her arrest on 11th June 2018 and the first time her lawyer saw her was during court proceedings. Ebru Ozkan had come to Jerusalem on a 4 day holiday with a tour group to visit to Al Alqsa Mosque during Laylat al Qadr (on the final days of Ramadan). She was arrested whist boarding her plane to return home.
At the hearing on Monday 9th July, conditional bail was set upon payment of a ransom of 15,000 shekels ( 3,117ドル), confiscation of her passport and having to attend a police station twice a week. But bail is conditional upon the prosecution agreeing, they have till 5pm Tuesday to appeal the verdict. In the meantime Ebru Ozkan is still languishing in an Israel dungeon.
Following widespread condemnation, both in local protests in Turkey and international protests in London, of the Turkish governments inaction in securing her release, a member from the Turkish embassy did attend the hearings on Sunday and Monday (something that did not happen during the initial hearings).
Imninds chair Abbas Ali said "After a month of interrogation, and we all know that's often euphemism for torture, all Israel has on Ebru Ozkan is she brought 5 bottles of perfume two 2 years ago, a mobile charger which she took back home, and 500ドル she was given by a friend for their family in the West Bank. To spin that as money laundering for terrorism is ridiculous even for Israel. Clearly Israel's persecution of Ebru Ozkan is a sign of Israel's weakness and paranoid fear of its inevitable end. We have to fight this injustice and campaign for Ebru Ozkan's release. The best pressure point to affect her release is the Turkish government, which has joint cooperation agreement deals with Israel in practically every field from military, economics, to theft of Palestinian natural gas.. Turkey only has to hint at Ebru Ozkan's incarceration impacting one of those deals to secure her release."
Source: www.inminds.com