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Title

Prison no. 5 : eleven years in Turkish jails / by Mehdi Zana, as told to André Vauquelin ; preface by Elie Wiesel ; postscript by Kendal Nezan ; translated by Sarah Hughes.

Author

Zana, Mehdi, 1940-

Publication

Watertown, Mass. : Blue Crane Books, 1997.

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Additional Authors

Vauquelin, André

Description

xii, 98 p. : maps; 24 cm.

Summary

After serving eleven years in the notorious military prison in Diyarbakir, Mehdi Zana was released in 1991 following a conditional amnesty, only to be sentenced again in 1994 to four more years and in 1997 to ten more months of imprisonment for his testimony to the European Parliament Human Rights Sub-committee and for publishing a poetry book, respectively. Mehdi Zana's wife, Leyla Zana - a Noble Peace Prize candidate and winner of Sakharov Prize for Freedom - is one of the six Kurdish deputies in Turkey who were charged with "separatism", stripped of their parliamentary immunity and arrested in March 1994. She is currently serving a 15-year prison sentence in Ankara Prison.

Series Statement

Human rights & democracy

Uniform Title

• Human rights & democracy
• Prison no 5. English

Alternative Title

• Prison no 5.
• Prison number 5
• Prison number five

Subject

• Kurds > Turkey > Biography
• Political prisoners > Turkey > Biography
• Since 1980
• Turkey > Politics and government > 1980-
• Zana, Mehdi, 1940-

Genre/Form

Biographies

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface / Elie Wiesel -- May Name Is Mehdi Zana -- Diyarbakir Military Prison -- The Trial -- App. A. An Assessment of Violation of Human Rights in Turkey -- App. B. Mehdi Zana's 1994 Trial for His Testimony Before the European Parliament -- App. C. Amnesty International Reports.

ISBN

1886434050 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97030282^//r97

OCLC

37432725

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library