Lawyers of Dink family go to the Constitutional Court

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The Court of Cassation investigation into the case with 62 suspects where public officials are standing trial in relation to the murder of Hrant Dink, the founder and editor-in-chief of the Agos newspaper was completed in June. 

With the supreme court upholding the acquittals and lapse of time decisions for some of the suspects, thus rejecting the requests made, the Dink family lawyers applied to the Constitutional Court this Tuesday (July 25). 

"Not subject to statute of limitations"

Agos reported that the lawyers underlined "the right to know the truth" in their petition, and detailed the errors and deficiencies in the judicial process.

"It is clear that official documents that could help reveal the patterns of the murder have been falsified, the records and information requested have not been sent to the Court by the public institutions, the evidence requested has not been collected, and it has not been possible to hear the public officers that the litigators requested should testify at the Court," the lawyers stated in their petition. 

"The right to know involves, other than its collective dimension, an individual dimension that corresponds to the victims and their family members and beloved also. The right to know about violations of human rights and the fate of the victims in case of death or being lost, is, by its nature, not subject to statute of limitations," they added. 

In the petition, the deficiencies in the investigation were listed under the subtitle "The investigations have been made deficiently, with narrow content and permission was not given for investigating suspects for a long period of time so as to result in impunity," and the unsatisfactory rulings, the intentional actions and negligence before and after the murder were detailed under the subtitle "Decisions taken during the trial to result in impunity". (TY/PE)