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Title: Picket: Free Mehmet Tarhan!
START DATE: 12/9/2005
START TIME: 11:00 AM
Duration: 1 Hours
Location: downtown, central, hollywood, northeast
Location Details:
6300 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles
(one block west of Fairfax at Crescent Heights)
outside Turkish Consulate
Event Topic: glbt, anti-war
Event Type: demonstration
Contact Name: Global Women's Strike/LA
Contact Email: la@crossroadswomen.net
Contact Phone: 323-292-7405
DESCRIPTION:
Join a picket called by the Global Women's Strike/LA outside the Turkish consulate, 6300 Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles (west of Fairfax) from 11 am to 12 noon, on Friday, December 9. Bring signs, drums and noise makers!

December 9 also marks 24 years since Mumia Abu-Jamal was shot and beaten by police (more info below)*

Free Mehmet Tarhan!

Gay conscientious objector jailed in Turkey

9 December 2005: International Day of Action



Mehmet Tarhan is a gay anarchist “total” conscientious objector – against all wars and any alternative to military service. He was sentenced to four years by a military court for “refusing orders”.

Turkey does not recognise conscientious objection and provides no alternative to military service.

For the Turkish military, homosexuality is an “illness”. Men applying for exemption on grounds of homosexuality must submit to an anal examination and often provide a video of sexual intercourse.

This is the equivalent of the notorious “virginity test” which the Turkish police and army have used for decades to judicially rape and sexually assault women, in particular Kurdish women.

Mehmet has refused to be classified as “ill” because he is gay and has demanded his right to be a conscientious objector. The Military Court of Appeal quashed the previous sentence, threatened judicial rape and ordered a re-trial on 15 December.

* December 9 also marks 24 years since Mumia Abu-Jamal was shot and severely beaten by Philadelphia police and later railroaded to death row. International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal (ICFFMAJ) is organizing an afternoon of activities and meetings in Philadelphia to plan further action to work for Mumia's release. Payday and Wages Due Lesbians will be participating in those activities and bringing the movement to support Mehmet to the movement to support Mumia. For more information, email icffmaj@aol.com. We have also invited ICFFMAJ and those supporting Mumia to participate in the Mehmet day of action. Free Mumia! - Free Mehmet



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