| Leyla Zana |
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BIOGRAPHY She was born in May . In 1994 she was awarded the Rafto Prize . In 1998 her sentence was extended because of a letter she had written that was published in a Kurdish newspaper, which allegedly expressed banned pro-separatist views. While in prison she published a book titled ''Writings from Prison''. With Turkey's position as an applicant to the European Union , the EU repeatedly called for her release on human rights grounds, making its position clear with the award of the 1995 Sakharov Prize . In 2001 the European Court Of Human Rights ruled against Turkey after a review of her trial; although Turkey did not recognize the result, in 2003 a new harmonization law permitted retrials based on ECHR decisions. In 2002, a movie named ''The Back of the World'' examined her case. In April 2004 , in a trial which the defendants frequently boycotted, their convictions and sentences were reaffirmed. In June 2004 , after a prosecutor requested quashing the prior verdict on a technicality, the Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals ordered Zana and the others released. In January 2005 , the European Court of Human Rights awarded Zana and each of the other defendants € 9,000 from the Turkish government, ruling Turkey had violated her rights of free expression. Zana and others plan to form a new party and re-enter politics. EXTERNAL LINKS
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