Zehra Kurtay: Turkish journalist who took refuge in France risks deportation
After suffering torture and imprisonment in her country, Turkish journalist Zehra Kurtay risks being expelled from France, where she had sought refuge since 2007.
She must meet a judge within forty-eight hours, before the end of Wednesday, May 28.
There is an emergency for the Turkish journalist and activist, who has been a refugee in France since 2007 but whose obtaining a residence permit is always a real obstacle course.
Despite all his efforts and eighteen years of presence in France, her political asylum was abruptly withdrawn by the sub-prefecture of L’Haÿ-les-Roses. The Bureau des Droits du Peuple, a human rights association, demands her immediate release. It reiterates that international and French law are clear.
” The 1951 Geneva Convention, Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, the United Nations Convention against Torture, and the established case law of the European Court of Human Rights strictly prohibit the expulsion of a person to a country where they risk being subjected to torture or inhuman or degrading treatment. French law also stipulates that people whose state of health is incompatible with detention cannot be placed in administrative detention ,” the association insists.
” Zehra Kurtay’s illness and the political persecution she suffered are clear and sufficient grounds to prohibit her placement in a detention center ,” she concluded.
INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS (IS4PP) 
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