WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 28, NOYAN TAPAN. The American ®Amnesty International¯ organization expressed its indignation on the occasion that a criminal action was brought already for the third time with accusation of "humiliating the Turk" against Hrant Dink, the editor of the Armenian "Akos" newspaper of Istanbul. "Article 310 must not only be changed but comletely be taken out of the Criminal Code," is said in the statement of the organization. According to the "Turkish Weekly" periodical, the American organization believes that this prosecution towards Dink is a bright example of those pressures which are used against journalists peacefully making use of their liberty of expression. And Turkey as a state singed the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms as well as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Right, has a legal commitment to carry out them," the statement authors emphasized. The organization that considered Dink to be "a prisoner of conscience" demands from the Turkish judicial system to justify him.

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