Istanbul Anatolian Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office started an investigation against artist Berna Laçin due to ‘denigrating religious values of society’ with her Twitter post in which she reacted against the campaigns for the re-enactment of capital punishment.
“If the death penalty was a solution, then the lands of Medina would not break records in the number of rape incidents, Don’t make me talk now, let scientists, neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social scientists and lawyers find solutions together, hand-in hand. Governments don’t construct societies with slogans from tribunes,” Berna Laçin said in a tweet on July 3, addressing the calls for capital punishment started on the social media after 8-year-old Eylül Yağlıkara and 4-year-old Leyla Aydemir were found dead after being lost; Yağlıkara in Polatlı district of Ankara and Aydemir in Ağrı. Targeted due to her post, the artist stated, “Their actual intent is to bring capital punishment back. A group wanting to bring death penalty wants to stir up the society by targeting those reacting against capital punishment.”
04.07.2018
bianet.org