4. Turk

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Charge:	Terrorism
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Year Convicted:	2007
Year Cleared:	2008
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Belgium
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"One of seven Turks convicted in 2007 of alleged membership in the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C). On February 7, 2008, Belgium's Anvers Court of Appeals acquitted all seven defendants of the terrorism convictions. The Court, however, upheld the convictions for false identity papers and weapons violations entered against Fehriyeher Erdal and two other defendants, and their suspended sentences. The appeals court ruled that the defendants had no intention of committing terrorist acts in Belgium, and that it was not proper for the court to assess how the defendants felt about terrorism in general. In acquitting the defendants the court also declined to take into consideration their possible activities in other countries. The seven defendants had originally been convicted of belonging to the terrorist organization in March 2006, but the convictions were overturned on appeal by the Belgian Supreme Court on the ground that the impression of bias by the trial judge."
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Information Source 1:	"Belgian court scraps terrorist conviction of turks, Javno (Croatia) (Reuters), February 7, 2008"
Information Location 1:	http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=121734
Information Source 2:	"Belgium says Turkish criticism of court ruling 'unacceptable', Turkish Daily News, February 11, 2008"
Information Location 2:	http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=96096
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4. Turk

Charge:

Terrorism

Sentence:

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

2007

Year Cleared:

2008

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Belgium

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

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Innocence Proved By:

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Male

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Information Source 1:

"Belgian court scraps terrorist conviction of turks, Javno (Croatia) (Reuters), February 7, 2008"

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http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=121734

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"Belgium says Turkish criticism of court ruling 'unacceptable', Turkish Daily News, February 11, 2008"

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http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=96096

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