1. Along with the Emergency Laws come the security courts, where trials are held in secret and often without defense attorneys present. 2. As is the custom in Turkish security courts, the three judges, including one military officer, shared the raised dais with prosecutors. 3. At the same time, Palestinian security courts, like the one that has put Hafnawi on trial, sentenced four people to death by firing squad for treason. 4. Because the prosecution was brought before a special state security court, the defendants have no right of appeal. 5. Belmarsh is a maximum security court next to a prison where cases of suspected international terrorists are generally heard. 6. A judge is expected to decide whether Fuat should be turned over for trial in the state security court. 7. Against the special Palestinian security court, which sparked the riots when it sentenced a former Islamic activist to death. 8. But this month, after a yearlong inquiry, a state security court issued an arrest warrant for Gulen. 9. Even so, he placed Soboh in the jurisdiction of the secretive Palestinian security courts rather than the criminal courts. 10. He has been met with a violent Turkish response, including documented torture of Kurdish guerrilla suspects and secret trials by state security courts. |
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